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...quite close to me who are on the other side. One of the very nice things is how very nicely they treat me. Everybody has been very civil. There are no people going around the corridors shooting dirty looks at each other or anything. In fact, I teach in the same classroom right after one of the supporters of President Summers [Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse] and we get along very well. Obviously we will speak on opposite sides of the issue...
...Shahar does not deny that his primary goal is to teach his students how to be happier and healthier, not to inundate them with abstract psychological theory. He wants them to learn how to feel better about themselves and become better citizens, not to slave over stuffy, abstract concepts they’ll never use in everyday life...
...over the course of the next semester, Ben-Shahar will lecture from the Sanders stage four times a week—twice for Positive Psychology, twice for the Psychology of Leadership—and he will teach his students that “happiness is and ought to be the ultimate end.” He’ll do it for as long as he can—because he’s a lecturer and not a research professor on the tenure track, he may only be allowed to teach here for one more year after he returns...
...before he was TFing classes under Stone. Stone taught the very first positive psychology class at Harvard in 1999 as a seminar, and Ben-Shahar served as his TF for the class. After Ben-Shahar finished his graduate work, Stone told him that he should take his place and teach the course...
...important role in inhibiting students from leaving Cambridge. Such doubts are especially common among students in the sciences, where sequenced curricula depend on consistently solid instruction. Last year, science concentrators represented a disproportionately small number of total students studying abroad (only 15 percent). Recruiting Harvard science faculty to teach abroad and developing partnerships with world-class laboratories and institutions must remain a priority for study abroad programming. Most importantly, while the latest developments in the Harvard Summer School study abroad programs are commendable, we urge the College to use these programs as a model to invest in term-time international...