Word: succession
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...culture in which it was okay to have dates with your students and it was okay to have long private conversations with female students behind closed doors,” said Putnam, adding that he now keeps the door open when he meets privately with female students.But despite the success in attracting new attention to harassment, Pellegrini notes that the victory is only a partial one. “It’s obviously important for the college to have sexual harassment policies and guidelines,” Pellegrini said. “But if colleges and universities think this...
...Task Force on the Arts, the Report on Harvard Housing Renewal, and exciting plans for calendar changes. Students, however, benefit most when the administration follows through with its plans and takes student opinion into consideration. Likewise, efforts to improve social life at Harvard are much more likely to be successful if thoughtfully executed.By far, Harvard’s campaign to “green” the campus and raise awareness about environmental issues was a great success due to the efforts of both the administration and student environmental advocacy groups. Harvard kicked off the year with the creation...
...seniors have been here at Harvard for the past four years, and it’s time to ask the question: how much does that matter? To what degree has Harvard prepared us for success? Or, as J. K. Rowling put it in her commencement speech last year, to what extent has it prepared us for failure? Despite Harvard’s opinionated student population, the university’s biggest challenge remains providing us with a well-balanced education offering a variety of ideological views, the kind of diversity we are likely to encounter in the world beyond...
...that we did not learn because we attended Harvard. Useful life skills, reasonable expectations, and the ability to accept and learn from criticism are all lessons that many learn in their college years, yet we were largely isolated from these lessons by Harvard and its focus on academics and success. The whole college experience should be focused on much more than academics, and Harvard should strive in the future to focus as much on the non-academic aspects of growth and learning as it does on the learning in the classroom...
...greatest success is the student who pursues his or her own research. The student who does not turn trained precision of thought into a weapon against received wisdom might get an A for the elementary school lesson of sitting still. The student who learns the quickest route to a legitimizing degree and a six-figure salary gets an A for the lessons of vocational school. But the student who uses scholarship and words to resist the authoritarianism and the injustice of senescent power gets an A for the lessons of Harvard College. In the history of Harvard, many students...