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...knowing that academia’s strict definition of understanding precludes any sort of critical evaluation or the issuing of any value judgments” (Feb. 6). The Salient’s conclusion is that indeed the Islamic studies gift will further the cause of Islamic extremism by supporting scholarship which, for sake of cultural sensitivity, will at minimum fail to criticize it.With all the accusation and innuendo, we might expect some evidence, or at least putative evidence, that there is a problem with this support for Islamic studies at Harvard. Of course, there is no need for evidence that...
...HFAI surpasses all of the financial aid programs of Harvard’s competitors and, we hope, will have ripple effects throughout higher education by compelling other schools to increase their aid packages as well in order to compete for low-income students. The announcement that general need-based scholarship funding will increase by 6.2 percent this fall is also welcome news. The leap is a bigger one than that of previous years—in 2005, scholarship funding rose 5.8 percent—and will help soften the blow of higher tuition. We are heartened by the words...
Walt will remain a tenured professor at the school, but the announcement that he will leave the position of academic dean means that Walt will no longer be in charge of the KSG’s teaching and research at a time when his own scholarship is under attack...
Walt will remain a tenured professor at the Kennedy School, but the announcement that he will leave the position of academic dean means that Walt will no longer be in charge of the school’s teaching and research at a time when his own scholarship is under attack...
Administrators at schools that offer porn studies find themselves caught between their desire for cutting-edge scholarship and their reluctance to stir up controversy. "I wish I had more faculty doing this kind of exciting work," says David Penniman, a dean at Buffalo who oversees Halavais' cyberporn course. Penniman acknowledges that the graphic images used in the class may upset some people, but, he adds, "it's tricky for a dean or university president to try to dictate what should or shouldn't be in the syllabus." It's especially tricky at state schools where legislators help determine school funding...