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Taking an old classic and making it into something fresh always has a risk of disaster. There’s a chance that the update will have the same effect of hearing Britney cover “Satisfaction?? or of sighting your gramps wearing bright blue skintight jeans, and that the result will be more disastrous than when Coke tried to update its signature beverage in 1985. In “All Shook Up,” the latest exhibition to grace the art gallery inside of the Boston Athenaeum, photographer Thomas Kellner presents a modern take...
...Education. The study, conducted by the Education School’s Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, asked some 7,000 tenure-track faculty members at 78 institutions to evaluate their employer institution’s performance in 12 categories. Among the categories used to gauge junior faculty satisfaction??including the reasonableness of the tenure process, support available for faculty members with families, and compensation—Harvard only received an exemplary rating in one area: teaching. Stanford and Brown University both received exemplary status on eight of the criteria, followed by Duke with seven, and Dartmouth...
...eyes when it blinked.” A new recruit’s first experience in ‘Nam: he lies in bed with a prostitute who is “blowing smoke from her crotch while the jukebox in the next room played ‘Satisfaction?? by the Rolling Stones.” However, a few potent images cannot carry a novel like they can a short story. And that is the problem with the work: Johnson relies too much on images and respects plot too little. The plot is seemingly dormant throughout, nascent...
...landmark report on Harvard’s teaching deficiencies and refuses to require teaching evaluations for all courses.The Faculty has also resisted investing in the undergraduate experience. Student life—which was reinvigorated under Summers thanks to a philosophy that responded to and spent money on student satisfaction??proved to be interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles’ blind spot. We hope that Faust recognizes the importance of the undergraduate experience and continues Summers’ tradition of investing in Harvard College—from promoting social events to shoring up the College?...
...alumni giving rate measures the percentage of grads who donate to their alma mater each year. It’s a barometer of alumni satisfaction??and a sign of the strength of the University’s fundraising operations. The drop in alumni giving is bad news for Harvard...