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...thought that some of Dean Smith’s comments were couched in a different kind of language than the kind we usually hear in academia??I suppose more like that of a CEO,” Ryan said of Smith’s comments at the Faculty meeting. “I think that some of the things that he quoted seemed to sound like a business advice book...
...higher education has expanded across the board, the popularity of the liberal arts—which has no direct professional application, save in academia??has decreased, particularly since so many undergraduates seek lucrative jobs in finance, law, and medicine. According to English professor Louis Menand, who co-chaired the task force to redesign Harvard’s general education requirements, this trend of decreasing interest in non-applied fields is not new. “The percentage of bachelor’s degrees in the liberal arts against all bachelor’s degrees that are given every...
...interests abroad. Ignatieff began to reevaluate his stance on Iraq soon after the invasion, he said in a phone interview from Toronto, where he now serves as a member of the Canadian parliament. At the same time as his opinion on Iraq was shifting, he was also moving from academia??where he had served as the director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—to politics. He returned to his native country in 2005 and rose to prominence in the opposition Liberal Party. This August, Ignatieff wrote an article...
...unfair. Plenty of Harvard students can vouch for the fact that their extracurricular obligations place a greater burden on their studies—but no one is telling a Phillips Brooks House Association volunteer or a Crimson Key comper when their hard work must come to an end for academia??s sake. University President Drew G. Faust will sit on the committee to select a replacement for Orleans. We hope that she and the selection committee will urge Orlean’s replacement to lift the ban on the football playoffs in the name of equality. The possibility...
...only a year earlier that two great institutions on both sides of the Charles River merged their worlds—music and academia??into...