Word: rigorousity
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Before I start really criticizing study abroad, though, the inevitable disclaimer: I do not doubt that a few undergraduates every year have significant and rigorous experiences working at universities in other countries. And making general claims about the value of study abroad is a dubious science at best without solid...
“Anecdotes are a powerful thing,” Traub explains. “They’re a lot more powerful than statistics are. There have been so many interactions, but the ones that become public, those are few. In talking to people at Harvard, it?...
THERE WAS SOMETHING SELF-DESTRUCTIVE ABOUT Harvard University President Larry Summers' speech on gender disparities in January. In his first sentence, he said his goal was "provocation" (rarely a wise strategy at a diversity conference). He called for "rigorous and careful" thinking to explain the gender gap among top-tier...
The journey from business executive to sculptor was similar to the transition she made in 1980 after 17 years of staying home with the kids. Back then, aptitude tests revealed that she would make a perfect engineer, and she plunged back into school for a degree in computer science at...
The status of WGS at Harvard is shameful. Reputedly the leading research institution in the world, Harvard is in fact stifling scholarship in this area. Summers himself articulated the need to support gender studies in his January 19 letter to the Harvard community: “As members of a...