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...think you're making a mistake if you assume that anyone can teach ethics. These are tough problems. It's a serious subject, requiring a lot of thought and background. The faculty should have someone whose area of expertise this is, who they can turn to with their questions," Bok adds...
Business faculty say the case method forces research into the kinds of practical problems their school wants to teach. "The case method is a method of research--Bok's report is somewhat like telling a chemist not to do any work in a laboratory, just to think up ideas," Wickham Skinner, Robinson Professor of Business Administration, says. "The business world is our laboratory...
Although the Board insists that its programs like the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America--the foremost library of its kind in the U.S.--indirectly affect undergraduates by educating those who teach at Harvard, undergraduates say they derive little warmth from that fire. The real question, they say, is whether Radcliffe, having virtually achieved its goal of opening a Harvard education to women, should now fold itself into the Harvard Corporation, Pembroke-Brown style, or at least disassociate itself and its programs from Harvard...
...Divinity School has a six-year-old women's studies program that critics say may be just the sort of island Lerner described. The program brings to the school five "research-resource associates," women doing doctoral or post-doctoral research in theology with a feminist perspective. The women teach courses, do research and supposedly encourage regular faculty to take up women's studies interests and incorporate them into the regular curriculum. After a Ford Foundation-funded study of the first five years of the program, the Divinity faculty this year voted overwhelmingly to continue the program for eight years...
Many people in the city planning profession would tell him to hire some bright young graduates from the Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) of Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD). But many others would insist he avoid that institution altogether. "They teach you economic analysis, not city planning, over there on the Charles," one of these critics might...