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Harvard’s House community, as it stands, is rather pitiful. Think of where the Houses stand on the ladder of communal allegiance. At the top lie a hodgepodge of athletic teams, blockmates, social clubs, and tightly-knit student groups. Then come second-tier student groups, after that cultural or religious affiliations, and, only then, the Houses. One is almost embarrassed to introduce a friend by (merely) claiming a shared House. Whereas at Oxford and Cambridge—the universities upon which our system was modelled—students are still identified as residents of certain colleges, at Harvard...
...think that no one is looking. These are very brave people to do what they do.” The SAR network has thus far arranged for over 100 scholars to flee their countries and take academic positions in safer nations. While most of the destination schools are top-tier U.S. colleges and universities, the list includes schools from Thailand, Serbia, Canada, Mexico, and South Africa, among others. Later today, the SAR network will host a forum at the Carr Center with five of the current scholars, as well as Jawad and Kar. The event will be held in Neustadt...
...points. Furthermore, a large component of the U.S. News rankings—25 percent—are peer rankings. In the November 2005 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Colin Diver, the president of Reed College, said that some schools routinely rated their peer institutions into the bottom tier so as to propel themselves upwards. A proliferation of rankings without peer evaluations might lead colleges to more honestly evaluate other institutions...
...expresses frustration at the University’s prioritization of faculty research over undergraduate education. He argues that tenure review committees must pay more attention to the quality of a candidate’s teaching. And Yagan introduces the sensible idea of “a tier of permanent lecturers, hired exclusively for their teaching abilities...
Washington is a city of famous museums--the Smithsonian, the National Archives, even the White House. But could those attractions be too famous? Visitors who are drawn to them almost automatically may not realize that the nation's capital boasts a second tier of smaller, more specialized museums that are equally fascinating and often possess certain distinct advantages over their bigger, better-known brethren. For starters, they are less crowded and often inexpensive or free. In those institutions, adventurous tourists can find colorful, offbeat exhibits highlighting world-class collections, in some cases the only ones of their kind...