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...week, Kirby voiced his support for the Faculty and Faculty Council to push forward with the curricular review this spring. He called the curricular review “our highest priority,” warning that Harvard is otherwise at risk of becoming a great research university with merely sub-par undergraduate teaching. “Only when our College and University equally can claim to be second to none can we begin to feel satisfied,” wrote Kirby.Kirby’s intuitions are correct. The call to put the curricular review on hold until...
Even for the hundreds upon hundreds of courses available to Harvard undergraduates, it is no secret that many Harvard students are not satisfied with the many educational offerings—and rightfully so. And yawning gaps in particular sub-areas (like Continental philosophy) are only part of the problem. At the department level, the slate of courses offered reflects faculty interests in particular areas instead of a coherent vision of what a complete undergraduate education in a particular concentration ought to cover. This is not to say that departments hastily organize their undergraduate requirements; it is clear that concentration requirements...
...unrelated to the song—they do, after all, try painfully hard to be arty—nothing seems to be related to anything else at all here. The title and the visuals seem to be totally unrelated to the lyrics, which are a fairly standard sub-Interpol: elliptical and dark...
...mindset. Since its initial appearance in the early 1800s, the “every tub on it’s own bottom” mantra has been a mainstay of managerial philosophy, the catchphrase of a budgeting scheme in which each of the University’s multitude of sub-units independently applies for approval from the Corporation. Apparently, making each school, museum, and administration responsible for its own solvency encourages initiative and self-reliance. The problem of course is that this system can be hugely inefficient. A McKinsey study in 2003 found that Harvard could save $15-30 million...
...These groups are based upon our roster of activities, the classes we take, and the company we regularly keep. They not only suggest a lack of open communication across our student body, but also invite the potential for animosity on a frighteningly wide scale.It is the divide between these sub-communities, after all, that has made it possible for large swaths of our campus to hold entirely contradictory opinions concerning, among other things, which topics of conversation are sufficiently “intellectual,” what constitutes a substantial contribution to academic discourse, and whether the tenth...