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...would make the cost of attending college prohibitive. That is why we welcome Congress’ recent decision to open federal financial aid to students attending online schools. Congress’ recent decision to open federal funding to online colleges involved removing the previous stipulation that colleges had to teach at least half of their courses in person on a campus. The increased funding will simply mean more college graduates, something that can only benefit society. In a pilot program allowing a few dozen colleges to waive the 50 percent hurdle for funding, enrollment at eight of them rose eight...
...trading searchlights for the spotlight. The prison gym has been transformed into a small theater, with an orchestra pit at the back and a two-tier stage on which 17 women - all cleavage and fishnets - strut their stuff with the kind of attitude drama school just can't teach. Two weeks ago, rehearsals were still an exercise in controlled chaos. Now, with help from a professional director, choreographer, voice coach, costume designer and three seasoned actors in the lead roles the inmates are in character, in step and (mostly) in tune. Ladies who couldn't remember their lines...
Although his column was filled with strong opinions, he offered only one example of the egregious misbehavior of Harvard faculty. The Harvard history department, he claimed, can’t even be bothered to teach courses on the American Revolution. Ten minutes of research could have told him that the American history faculty, almost all of whom have been at Harvard less than 10 years, routinely win awards both for undergraduate teaching and for mentoring of graduate students. They hardly fit the stereotype of the “paleo-faculty” who supposedly resisted President Summers invocations to shapeup...
...Revolution,” 103, “The Early Republic.” And so on. The narrative was familiar and reassuring. The names and dates were chiseled in stone. He is right. The Harvard history department doesn’t teach courses like that. We think our students deserve better...
...record, I regularly teach a large introductory course, (Historical Studies B-40, “Pursuits of Happiness”) in the Core. It typically enrolls 150 to 200 students. Tierney didn’t consider it worth mentioning. Nor did he discover David Armitage’s course on the Declaration of Independence, Joyce Chaplin’s on “The Nine Lives of Benjamin Franklin,” or Jill Lepore’s new core course, “Liberty and Slavery.” He did mention Vincent Brown’s course...