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...well as on YouTube Edu, got an A average.) The much smaller, more closely edited site also assembles playlists of related lectures, like one titled "Wars Throughout History." Richard Ludlow, 23, came up with the idea for the site when he was struggling with an algebra course at Yale and discovered helpful Web lectures by the author of his textbook, MIT professor Gilbert Strang. Ludlow thinks every school should play more to its strengths and not be shy about letting a professor rely on a rival's superstar lectures. "That way, the students get a great lecture experience...
...Brands, an office-supply company that makes products like Swingline staplers, imposed a massive 47% pay cut for six weeks, it established an emergency-loan program for employees who couldn't make ends meet on a shrunken paycheck. "It impacts standard of living," says Truman Bewley, an economist at Yale who has studied the ways companies cut back during recessions. "People don't quickly forget...
...both Jehn and Harris have said that one of their major goals for the future of the Expos program is to make it so that students’ Expos experiences better prepare them for writing in their concentrations and other classes.Unlike undergraduates at colleges such as Duke, Stanford, and Yale, students at Harvard are not required to take a writing course specific to a discipline.Jehn wrote in an e-mail that he plans to work with departments to help preceptors learn more about what constitutes good writing in different disciplines. He also wrote that he plans to create a student...
...suited to inspire people to protect the environment. But they said that sparking such inspiration is an enormous challenge. “It is difficult to frame in terms of religious tradition or current mission,” said panelist Willis J. Jenkins, assistant professor of social ethics at Yale Divinity School. “Environmental issues have to make theological sense. They have to make a community come alive.” In that vein, each panelist discussed practical ways to describe environmentalism in terms of religious faith. “It can be a spiritual practice to turn...
...weeks ago Harvard was swept by Yale in a doubleheader that seemed to put the division title out of reach, and the team gave up seven runs with two outs in the bottom of the sixth against Brown to let the Bears blow open what had been a close game...