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...Extension School serves a critical purpose: It offers everybody the opportunity for advanced study at Harvard, regardless of prior Harvard affiliation. In this way, the school enables a broad swath of people who don’t fit into a “traditional” degree pattern—from those who want to finish their undergraduate degree later in life to those who simply want to take a course for fun—to fulfill their educational goals. Because the Extension School’s target audience includes the general public just as much as currently enrolled extension...
This is not to say, of course, that all courses offered to GSAS and College students should be the exclusive province of these closed communities. The mission of the Extension School—to provide higher education to a broad swath of the general public—is urgent and worthy enough to be shared by the entire University, at least through avenues that would not detract from the learning of other Harvard students. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, offers unlimited access to syllabi, handouts, and other non-sensitive course documents on its Web site. FAS should...
...calculations if the Faculty of Arts and Sciences follows the recommendations of a new report on teaching released to professors last week.In a document that gives voice to frustrated professors who believe that Harvard marginalizes or ignores good instruction, the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development proposed a swath of concrete measures to change Harvard’s teaching culture. The recommendations include more documentation of teaching ability during hiring and promotions, more funding from the FAS administration for pedagogical experimentation, increased scheduling flexibility to allow for different class formats, and a push for professors to visit each other?...
...like her mother and grandmother) she went to Columbia School of Journalism and studied in France, working summers at the Houston Chronicle. Then a brief gig at the Minneapolis Tribune, followed by six years as co-editor of The Texas Observer with friend Kaye Northcott. The two cut a swath through Texas politics in grand Observer tradition, investigating and exposing misdeeds and championing causes. In person, the two looked nothing like a duo from central casting - Molly beyond six feet, with big hair and a wide laugh; Kaye, petite, tiny, birdlike - but both gritty journalists...
...tech-addicted Asia, even a day without Internet access can trigger withdrawal. "I am depressed, very much so," wrote a blogger who calls himself Hong Kong Phooey after a Dec. 26 earthquake disrupted telecommunications across a wide swath of Asia. "No online games for me," wrote Phooey, "cannot download any new songs for my new player, cannot access my fantasy football league, no YouTube, cannot read or write blogs, and cannot get on Xbox Live 360." Another Hong Konger, 32-year-old consultant Josh Tse, reported feeling "some pain, some hollowness" after he found himself unable to update his blog...