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...biggest impact on the world, I think, was to provide a model of a kind of social science that is politically engaged and balanced in its use of textbook science with practical experience,” Parker said. “His initial training was in agricultural economics, which is a very applied economic theory...
...wear identification badges while on the job were welcome, and their campaign to give Harvard students a more free choice of roommates by eliminating restrictions on mixed gender rooming will improve the quality of life of those students uncomfortable with mandated single-sex housing. Additionally, the UC advocated reduced textbook costs for students on financial aid and encouraged the College to coordinate online resources to bring coursepack costs under control. The year ended with a final display of political fireworks. After the UC spun off its social programming functions to an independent, University Hall-funded College Events Board mid-semester...
...Electrodynamics” on Wednesday morning had students crying foul when it was learned that others in the course brought already-completed answers to several of the questions into the exam. The final, to which students were allowed to bring in their class notes and textbook, reused four of the questions from an exam administered in 2004, which was posted on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ online archive of previous exams. The course head, Professor of Physics Mikhail D. Lukin, said that he was unaware of the availability of the 2004 exam online...
...certainly one of the glories of Harvard that individual faculty members have the talent and enthusiasm to teach unique courses, not canned or straight from a textbook. But it does not follow that our teaching should be a solitary pursuit, in the same “each-tub-on-its-own-bottom” style that complicates so much of Harvard’s administration. Rather, professors should think of teaching as a cooperative activity, involving students, graduate assistants, faculty colleagues and administrators. We need more collective responsibility and institutional memory in our teaching. We do not need more individual...
...world is witnessing a gradual “realignment of economic power” in the face of unprecedented global imbalances that defy textbook explanations, said Harvard’s endowment chief yesterday in his first appearance before students. Mohamed A. El-Erian, the new chief executive of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), addressed a friendly crowd of roughly 100 students for about an hour in a speech sponsored by the Harvard International Business Club and the Harvard Society of Arab Students in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium. The dialogue played to El-Erian’s strengths...