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...increase transparency and incorporate student perspective as the University grapples with an unprecedented budget crisis. In the e-mail, Hammonds acknowledged the potential safety hazards that students had raised at the town hall meetings, but she also reaffirmed that the proposal came after a “thorough review of the safety implications”—a claim that both students and House officials saw as insufficient. According to Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith, slashing late-night shuttle services was one of the budget cuts that College administrators...
...introducing Al Gore at Harvard’s Sustainability Celebration, President Drew G. Faust asserted, “Universities are the world’s greatest source of ideas and innovation.” Theoretically, ideas generated by university scholars are disciplined by the scientific method, vetted by peer review, and made accountable through open publication with clear authorship. Talk radio, the blogosphere, and even The New Yorker operate by a lower standard...
...German style of higher education. Departments, in turn, were linked to the emergence of modern disciplines. It’s easy to track the founding of disciplines. Just check the date of the major academic journals: the Political Science Quarterly (founded 1886), American Anthropologist (1888), The American Historical Review (1895), and so on. Departments were invented to house and administer the research and teaching profiles of the new disciplines...
...December 10, the CCL voted unanimously to affirm the following statement: “The committee notes that the final clubs, after a review of the issues, have decided to revert to their independent status. The committee recommends that the College accept this decision and work to achieve this end as soon as possible...
Tenure at Harvard requires, above all else, copious publication. The peer-review process in scholarly journals and university presses subjects one’s work to harsh criticism by one’s intellectual rivals and demands punctilious caution in the handling of evidence and logic. The best way to guarantee success is to choose a specialty where mastering the entire literature is feasible and where one has few rivals. Such pursuit of expertise can generate finely tuned knowledge, but it can also generate territorialism and stifle debate. For example, another faculty resident in Leverett House in 1997-98 (when...