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...nearly one-fourth of my 25th reunion class formed Harvard Alumni for Social Action (HASA) to try to make improving education for the world??s poorest students part of Harvard’s development approach. We lobbied Harvard to allow our class to set up an alternate gift, in Harvard’s honor, which would build the institutional capacity of a university in sub-Saharan Africa with which Harvard already has academic collaborations. In view of the devastating impact of AIDS on African academics and the dilapidated state of their institutions, we felt that a class donation...
...world today. This is by far the biggest number of enslaved population in the entire human history,” said Bales, who is the president and founder of Free the Slaves, the U.S. sister organization of Anti-Slavery International. But, Bales also said, the percentage of the world??s population in slavery is lower than it has ever been, suggesting that battling slavery can be effective. He emphasized that although enslavement is still prevailing in every continent except Antarctica, it is solvable. Within Harvard, there have been recent efforts to respond to the problem of global slavery...
However potent the financial crisis may prove to be, it has not diminished Harvard’s standing as one of the world??s most recognizable educational institutions. Using the intangible power of institutional recognition, Harvard could back its much-fêted sustainability initiative with tangible, large-scale efforts. In order to accomplish this goal, Harvard should invest in alternative energy initiatives and set an example for other large institutions or corporations. A statement of this kind would demonstrate a serious commitment to solving the global problem of climate change by using its ample financial resources. These efforts...
...crux of Faust’s speech was the argument that Harvard has already paid—and continues to pay—its social debts in kind, so to speak; that the work the University does in educating young people and contributing to the world??s research constitutes an unquantifiable sum far beyond what we might provide with a tax from the endowment. “If the endowment were smaller, we would have to do less,” she noted, and then connected this “less” to a string of unassailable...
...seven electives.This type of revamped program of study is a crucial step toward keeping the humanities relevant and alluring to undergraduates. As higher education becomes more and more specialized and the job market becomes increasingly competitive, the temptation to concentrate in a subject with “real-world?? applicability is strong. Yet English—and the other humanities—are valuable courses of study, along with more “practical” majors like economics or chemistry, but only if departments are willing to develop their curriculum to suit the times. Harvard?...