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CORRECTION The Dec. 13 magazine profile of Casey N. Cep ’07 misquoted Cep's description of the Rhodes scholarship. Cep called an award she received from the Harvard College Research Program--not the Rhodes Trust--“a grant to read over the summer.” The Rhodes program provides its fellows with two years of study at the University of Oxford...
...problem with the tenure process, as it presently exists, is that it ignores comparative advantage. Some academics are great teachers, others produce scholarship that changes the world. Still others, though they are few in number, manage to do both. Tenure is the light at the end of the tunnel that is the publish-or-perish lifestyle of graduate students. As a result, those who consider teaching, not research, their passion tend to drop off the tenure track early in their careers. Some of those lovers of pedagogy end up as non-faculty instructors at Harvard where, after teaching...
Students may not be qualified to judge the content of a professor’s scholarship, but they must be the primary judges of a professor’s teaching abilities. One does not need a doctorate to determine whether professors are well-organized and present engaging lectures, and whether, in the end, students feel educated by the class. In practical respects, reports on all professors will hopefully improve—or at least educate—faculty members on how they either inspire or bore the students whom they teach. On a more general level, mandatory evaluations send...
...Iraqi people have squandered their liberation from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Religious fanaticism, political and tribal animosities and irrational anti-Western sentiments have created a crisis of national self-destruction. To reduce the regional prejudice against Western culture, a large scholarship program for young Muslims (not only from Iraq), with stays of two to four years in the U.S. and European countries, should be launched. I remember gratefully the liberation of Germany at the end of World War II and the subsequent favorable social, cultural and economic development. Gerhard Fritsch Nuremberg, Germany...
During the summers off from Harvard, Fujimoto traveled to Alaska to earn “good money” working in salmon canneries. The 1942 edition of the Harvard Album, a class yearbook, noted that Fujimoto received the Edmund Ira Scholarship while he was here...