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...academic reform, but to remind the University that structural reforms to undergraduate education are not ends in themselves. Hiring more Faculty may lead to smaller class sizes, but smaller class sizes won’t mean anything unless they can significantly affect undergraduate attitudes for the better. The freshman seminar program is valuable not because the classes are small, but because it is a rare opportunity for first-years to develop and discover academic interests, free from grade or exam worries...
That event, though, was a wash for Dr. Rudenstine. Four years of college life are for me made up of little moments, some around seminar tables and others with friends over beer, and still others like that one on the paths in front of Harvard Hall when I introduced myself to one of the leading men in America. I never forgot it and in time I came to understand it better. This is what the president is, a cloud drifting through meetings and appearances in order to fight for this place that has been my home. A new installment...
...After a freshman seminar that he calls “an intro to everything cool in the visual world,” he was hooked...
...courses; creating one of the country’s preeminent lecture series in the visual arts, aimed at undergraduate interests and open to the entire community; organizing all Carpenter Center exhibitions since 1996; coordinating projects with the Fogg museum and its director, James Cuno, to make available more studio, seminar, and shared exhibition space; and fundraising annually for visiting faculty salaries, for speakers’ honoraria, for events at the Carpenter Center and for the Harvard Film Archive, bringing in well over $1 million since...
...college town an hour south of Boston, have wrestled with low attendance. The students aren't the problem; they're marked present for class an impressive 94% of the time. But their parents are a different story. The district invited 1,000 parents to a drug and alcohol seminar, but only two showed up. The turnout at some parent-teacher conferences can be just as paltry. At a public meeting, where droves of parents joined a heated debate on the future of Norton's middle-school basketball league, the room cleared out when talk turned to Item...