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...classes and now lists over 95 percent of spring textbooks. Despite respective objections from some faculty members and the coop the UC has had a rather promising first two weeks.The rest of the term will, if all goes according to plan, maintain this frenetic pace. March will focus on reforms to CUE course evaluations, although making senior common rooms a better resource for students and expanding house renovations will also be emphasized. In April, the theme will shift to mental health, which will include calendar reform to move fall term exams before winter break. May will consist of planning...
Surely, neither the suggestions nor the criticisms of the Task Force’s report should be belittled. The institutional prioritization of teaching, as indicated by the report’s proposal that departments award superlative instruction when considering both tenure appointments and pay raises, is a welcome reform. To the extent that its proposed improvements to the "civic culture of teaching" will enhance the undergraduate experience, the report is a well-timed and thoughtful affirmation of the university’s commitment to its students...
...even if the institutional conservatism of professorial politics yields to such reform, the culture of teaching at Harvard can advance only as far as its culture of learning. So long as students demand that student-faculty solidarity expand in place of self-sufficiency, that four years of learning somehow be handed down from on high, any improvement in the quality of instruction available will be lost in the shallows of a passive education. School has an uncanny way of getting in the way of an education; while any effort toward uniting the two is a step forward, to forget that...
Raising the quota has broad bipartisan support. Last spring, Senator John Cornyn introduced the SKIL bill, which sought to increase the annual quota from 65,000 to 115,000 while making the system more sensitive to market demand. Unfortunately, the bill was coupled with the wider Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, and has been stalled in Congress since last summer. To avoid further delay, Congress should immediately separate the SKIL bill from the broader bill for speedier passage. To do so would benefit foreign skilled workers and American interests alike...
...believe we are seeing the beginning of movements like that again, right here in America, and that we are poised on the edge of what might become a revival that will bring about big changes in the world. Historically, social reform often requires spiritual revival. And that's what church historians always say about real revival - that it changes things in the society, not just in people's inner lives. I believe that what we are seeing now may be the beginning of a new revival - a revival for justice...