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...brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Literature left an early mark on Campbell. Her mother believed memorization was key to education, and pushed her to commit to memory passages ranging from Psalm 23 to Shakespeare to Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry. Education remained a theme in Campbell's life. She taught elementary school for five years before turning fully to writing but never truly left her earlier profession. Her lyrical works were laden with of-the-moment social lessons--1994's Brothers and Sisters explored racial tension in post-- Rodney King L.A. In her books, she said, "I try to impart...
...exist. Yet what is profoundly mystifying to me, is why racism, or “differential treatment,” or whatever else one sees fit to call it, is somehow supposed to magically skip over Asian Americans in general and the sort of first-generation Asian Americans taught by my mother in particular...
...magazine’s list of university class podcasts. “If every undergrad watched this series, IT help desks would be out of business,” Jeff Howe wrote in “Podcast Lectures 101” in the December issue of Wired. The course, taught at Harvard Extension school, aims to increase students’ computer literacy and to help them understand the roots of computer problems, according to instructor David J. Malan ’99. “In that sense, we hope that the course’s lessons are not only...
...left behind, Lockwood found that very little academic work attempted to reconcile the two. Piecing together his discoveries from the different types of documents, Lockwood distinguished himself among Beethoven scholars by gaining considerable insight into the composer’s complicated creative process. While establishing himself among academics, Lockwood taught at Princeton for 22 years before transferring to Harvard, where he served as a music professor for another 22. Since retiring in 2002, Lockwood has remained active in the music community. He has published two books as an emeritus professor: the 2003 Pulitzer-nominated Beethoven biography and more recently...
...Standing Committee on the Core has worked since the late 1990s to approve suitable courses as Core substitutes on the basis of petition. Last spring, a total of 22 departmental courses—including 12 history courses—were approved as Core bypasses, and another eight courses being taught this fall, including four Humanities courses, were approved as bypasses after the year began.Lewis stresses that petitions can come from a variety of sources, including students dissatisfied with the Core classes available to them.“Courses come to Core committees in a variety of different ways?...