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Students would fulfill the proposed distribution requirement by taking either Harvard College Courses or a set of departmental offerings in five broad areas. The offerings from the Harvard College Courses would be survey classes with an interdisciplinary approach...
Advising within the departments, especially in the social sciences, is also a display of incompetence. In a 1999 survey given to graduating seniors, 34 percent of government concentrators said “yes” to the question of whether they were advised which courses to take. Only 31 percent of economics concentrators said “yes” to the question of whether their academic interests were discussed. Thus the great talent and promise students bring to the College is squandered. The formal advising system is an evident failure. Isolated geographically and socially from upperclass students, first-years...
This is a shame, because case-hardened upperclass students know well the nature of the College’s introductory courses and Core courses. Such classes are often very large, and in several egregious cases like the survey course “Principles of Economics,” professors do not have office hours. The Core Curriculum itself, by herding together non-concentrators, creates a culture with the worst possible incentives: Students are by definition not excited about the subject, and professors suspect...
Although mortgage interest rates have hit historic lows in recent years, many minorities are still missing out on the benefits of home ownership. High prices are partly to blame but so, apparently, is a sizable information gap, according to a survey out last week from mortgage financier Fannie Mae. Minorities are especially at risk of letting misperceptions prevent them from buying. For example, 73% of the general population know you don't have to have perfect credit to qualify for a mortgage. But only 57% of African Americans, 64% of Hispanics who speak mostly English at home...
...been listening for such cosmic drumbeats for a while. She joined the ET hunt in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where she used the school's 85-ft. telescope to search for alien signals. She later became a scientist for NASA's High Resolution Microwave Survey, which conducted similar research. This experience has led her to bring imagination to her work. With the help of a $25 million endowment from Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, she and the other SETI scientists are developing a new telescope array--a collection of up to 350 steerable dish antennas, electronically combined...