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...lucrative research careers are exactly the type of passionate instructors that Harvard should seek to attract.Second, the eight-year rule institutionalizes the fact that the curriculum rests in the hands of Harvard’s regular faculty, not some permanent “lesser faculty.” While valid, this concern is not enough reason to impose an eight-year restriction. Instead, Harvard should adopt the same policy as Yale, Brown, and a number of other schools, which offer short contracts that can be renewed contingent on the school’s need and the lecturer?...
...process of accreditation. This process, which is carried out at pre-ordained intervals by a regional governing board, is supposed to evaluate whether an academic institution is indeed academically institutionalized enough. If a school has accreditation, it has already passed the tests and has been certified as a valid educational center. Even more basically, every state has an interest in ensuring that its colleges and universities are performing and educating their students. A state with schools that are failing will have a vested interest in fixing these schools because educated citizens and workers make the state stronger; there...
...verify a prospective employee's status. An employer who signed up for the system could call an 800 number and provide the name, Social Security number or the alien ID number of a new hire. The employer would receive either a confirmation that the number and name were valid or an indication that called for further checking...
...wrong with you?” I’m asked this question so often that I have developed many creative explanations, usually involving abduction by aliens or the horrors of the Red Sox in the 2003 playoffs. I am happy to report, however, that I finally have a valid response. Now whenever I am I asked such a question, I simply tell my inquisitor to read the Jan. 30, 2006 issue of Newsweek entitled, “The Trouble With Boys,” and all their confusion about me will subside. In this report, the author, Peg Tyre...
...doubted the practicality of a switch from Coke. Larissa D. Koch ’08 says “There are enough people who are very thoroughly attached that there would be significant protest.” Usmani, for his part, says Coke-lovers have “a valid point,” but adds, “I have faith in Harvard students. I don’t think anyone can turn their back.” Unfortunately for SLAM, neither Harvard students nor the Harvard administration show signs of kicking the habit...