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...positive benefits for society and not just personal gain for individuals. Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) is a member of CGS. “While there are a number of findings showing that people with more advanced degrees tend to be better citizens, teach their children more about public affairs, etc., what we wanted to do in this report was show the many ways that people with graduate degrees from U.S. universities have contributed to the public good,” said Stuart Heiser, spokesman for CGS. Dean of GSAS Allan M. Brandt said...
...Grosz, who joined the Harvard faculty in 1986, said she does not know yet whether she will continue to teach classes in her new role as permanent dean. Grosz received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cornell University and master’s and doctoral degrees in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley...
...private” time for students, when Wu-Tang and Coors Light are supposed to be at the top of our priority list? Or, the student-scholars on campus might respond, shouldn’t I work a little harder, alone in the stacks of Widener, rather than teach in Mission Hill—isn’t that what Harvard...
...Crimson declined to print the same ad, which was submitted to dozens of college newspapers.Students at Brown protested by withdrawing the Herald issue containing the ad from all of the distribution points, and the story became national news. Campbell said that Simmons approached the event as an opportunity to teach students “to engage in reasoned, academically rigorous ways with complicated difficult ideas.”The second event that prompted the report was the filing of the class-action lawsuits, which made Brown’s history a matter of national interest, Campbell said. He credited Simmons...
...throughout Djata’s society. Gangs of kids with small grievances—a stolen ball, a lost bet—come after Djata and his friends with blowguns and knives. “The White King” presents a harrowing picture of what a society can teach a child. These kids simply follow the rules they are given; when Djata’s grandfather tells him to shoot a cat in the head, he unthinkingly does as he is told. Such is the mechanism with which Djata copes with the world: he doesn’t think...