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...outrageous things is that the rest of the [academic] community doesn’t have access to the relevant knowledge and research,” said Alice Jardine, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS). WGS, the logical nexus for this scholarship, is deprived of the adequate resources to study and spread knowledge about the sources of sex differences...
...said Jennifer C. Nash ’01, who graduated with a Women’s Studies degree and served as a teaching fellow for the Committee from 2003 to 2004. Many administrators also don’t recognize that WGS is promoting scholarship and debate rather than a particular agenda. “One of the battles we’ve had to fight is helping the administration to understand that we’re not a women’s or affirmative action center, but an academic center that does research,” said Jardine...
...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 university, we should do all we can to recognize and reduce barriers to the advancement of women in science. And, as academics who believe in the power of research, we should invest our energies in thinking as clearly and objectively as possible, drawing on potential insights from different disciplines, to identify...
...Catholics in Houston and Atlanta has tripled in the past decade; the nation's first new Catholic university in 40 years, Ave Maria, is under construction in Naples, Fla. Pizza billionaire and Michigan native Tom Monaghan, a conservative Catholic, is bankrolling the $200 million campus, along with a scholarship program for the children of Florida migrant laborers, and many regard the project as a potent symbol of Southern Catholicism's growing theological and political clout. All told, Catholics still make up only about 12% of the South's population, vs. 22% of the total U.S. population, according to the Glenmary...
...tidy distribution of grades is a misallocation of the College’s efforts. Rather, they should focus on teaching and learning by improving the process of teaching fellow selection and introducing more seminars and tutorials, whose small class sizes provide great opportunities for real academic growth. Nurturing scholarship should be the College’s primary goal, and the silly fight to end grade inflation will prevent the College from doing...