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...want to make theater about theater. You want to make theater about the world,” Donahue says.However, the absence of a performing arts department at Harvard does have at least one negative consequence.“You can’t draw faculty to Harvard to teach in the theater arts if there isn’t a department for them to live in,” Mangu-Ward says. But she adds that the upside is the necessity of student involvement: “If there were a department putting on theater, then they wouldn?...
...show off what she's wearing--a dove gray dress with delicate embroidery that she made in a day. "Many of the staffers at Blueprint make their own clothes--beautiful things," Stewart says proudly. "I think sewing is such an important thing to know and especially to teach kids." She adds, without a hint of irony, "It's important to be thrifty...
Petrobras started this free after-work program to teach reading, arithmetic and elementary science in 2005 after officials noticed an unusually high number of accidents occurring on the shop floor because laborers could not read warning signs. More than just the workers' safety and Petrobras' productivity is at stake. The woeful state of education in Brazil, the world's fifth largest country, is compromising productivity and competitiveness and acting as a brake on the country's development, according to economists, businesspeople and educators. With the economies of China and India surging ahead, thanks in part to their large pools...
...Professor Sidney Verba ’53 in 2004 endorsed calendar reform by an 18 to 1 margin. Undergraduates would also benefit from the added coordination: cross-registration at other Harvard schools would be less of a burden, and it would be easier for members of other faculties to teach courses at the College. That’s not to say there is no opposition to calendar reform. Many faculty members like the current calendar. Some point out that it’s nice to have a large chunk of time in January to research or travel without having...
Beyond hiring with both research and teaching priorities in mind, the new FAS dean should also consider borrowing the time of faculty from across the University to alleviate the teaching crunch. While FAS has a high student-faculty ratio in the social sciences, there are many top-notch teachers at places like the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education who would love to teach liberal arts courses to undergraduates. Currently, Harvard’s other faculties are an underutilized resource. The new dean should take steps to facilitate such inter-school cooperation which would improve pedagogy...