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According to Shanbhag, the conference, now in its fifth year, is unique in that it is student-run, yet attracts world-class speakers...
...global society? While many graduate programs at Harvard have a quarter or more of their students coming from abroad, fewer than 10 percent of the College students are international, too little for the American students to gain a real knowledge of the rest of the world, and certainly under-representative of the world-class excellence to be found in the rest of the world. Moreover, the strong interest of College students in international issues is not yet being slaked. When our new Center for International Development introduced a series of international programs for undergrads this past year, hundreds of students...
...that for the developing world, improved higher education is not just a luxury, but now life or death for these societies. For decades the rich world told the poor world to focus on primary education, even to the neglect of higher education. But this won't do in today's "knowledge economy," where higher education is essential for effective leadership and for technological advance. Harvard should help to lead a worldwide revolution in higher education, to ensure not just our own quality of education, but to help Africa, Asia and Latin America to foster world-class institutions to help build...
...question becomes, are you willing to take a risk to appoint someone younger who is a world-class but maybe not world-known scholar?," MacFarquhar says. "I think Harvard tends to be risk-averse because we are claiming to hire the best...
Bring together all the top squash players from all the top teams in the nation, give them a world-class venue complete with 16 international courts