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...Principles are at the forefront of Drew’s behavior,” says Samuel H. Preston, a professor of demography at Penn, where Faust taught for 25 years. “This is going to be an antidote to Larry Summers.” But Preston stressed that Faust could have followed anyone. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...focus on limited and somewhat obscure topics that are great for cocktail party banter but hardly form the basis of a truly general education. Second, the Core presents such a limited menu of classes that it is constraining, particularly for seniors who are at times forced to take poorly taught classes that do not interest them simply to fulfill a requirement.The Core need not be that way. Most of its problems lie in its implementation. Educational flexibility has slowly withered and died at the hands of the all-powerful Core Standing Committee, which at times seems to exist solely...
...proof is really in the pudding—it’s in the courses that are going to be taught,” Arthur Kleinman, chair of the Anthropology department, said...
...After three years of this work, I went to law school, because I wanted to understand how the law should work for those in need. I became a civil rights lawyer, and taught constitutional law, and after a time, I came to understand that our cherished rights of liberty and equality depend on the active participation of an awakened electorate. It was with these ideas in mind that I arrived in this capital city as a state Senator...
...will not occupy Mass. Hall for a 20-year tenure.The last two presidents—Summers and Rudenstine—came from outside of Harvard, but both had deep ties to the University, where they spent years as graduate students. Neither Cech, Etchemendy, nor Richard studied or taught here. Of the 22 confirmed candidates, only 11 went to or taught at Harvard.The search also suffered from poor timing. Since the process began that resulted in the selection of Summers in 2001, five other Ivy League schools have picked new leaders. With Richard’s appointment at Cambridge...