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...Usmani said. “The main way we can be useful to the campaign is putting pressure on Harvard, on Allied.”He said the decision marks a significant victory for SLAM, which has made unionization one of its primary focuses this year. SLAM held a teach-in last month featuring David Bonior, a former Democratic Minority Whip in the House, urging Harvard security guards to unionize, and SLAM co-sponsored a protest for guard unionization attended by nearly 100 Harvard employees, students, and SEIU representatives.“This is a decision that the guards...
Fortunately, the curricular review’s Committee to Review the Teaching of Writing and Speaking made recommendations to remedy the situation. The committee advocated adding course offerings in public speaking, debate, and oral argument and integrating oral assignments and instruction into c urrent courses. The report also advocated hiring professors to teach these courses and the creation of a writing and speaking center to integrate and streamline Harvard’s scattered resources on these subjects...
...Committee on Writing and Speaking to implement its recommendations. Yet while the Committee, which has met twice, works toward progress on some of the recommendations of the report, other recommendations can and should be implemented quickly and without sweeping changes. For instance, workshops and seminars could be created to teach interested students public speaking skills...
Even if no new professors can be hired immediately, courses in public speaking could and should be offered in the near future. Many Harvard professors are talented public speakers who could easily teach courses in the area—particularly those in the humanities and social sciences—and staff at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning specialize in teaching such skills. Future courses could fall under many departments: Dramatic Arts, English, Government, or a new area established especially for such a purpose...
...report’s authors said they were aware of this criticism. In a letter addressed to the Faculty, sent on Nov. 9, the report’s co-authors wrote, “We do not propose that we teach the headlines, only that the headlines, along with much else in their lives, are among the things that a liberal education can help students make better sense...