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...invited to sign on to the statement but declined to do so, leading students to question whether the institution has lived up to its mission to “bring [its] knowledge to bear on the world’s greatest challenges.” In this context, MIT’s patent-pooling announcement appears to be an unsuccessful attempt to catch up with Harvard and other Boston-area academic-research centers in the race to deliver essential medicines to patients in developing countries...
...Harvard excited by the opportunity to participate in the extraordinary research environment here. Our goal should be to foster that enthusiasm and curiosity, and the best way to meet this goal is to ensure that inquiry-based research is a fundamental component of the College’s educational mission. Indeed, as one of the foremost research institutions in the world, Harvard must meet the challenge of ensuring that all undergraduates at Harvard, and especially those in the sciences, have the opportunity to engage in research as part of their education...
Schools like Oprah’s Leadership Academy of South Africa operate on a top-down theory of change. They equip their graduates to act on the national and even international stage by guaranteeing tertiary education. In short, they prepare their students to be extraordinary. Oprah communicates such a mission to every viewer of her website before they can even click on the “mission” tab. The following series of questions greets every viewer of the school’s website: “How many Rosa Parks or Marie Curies have we lost to poverty...
Since Rachel’s graduation, the couple has been living in Washington. Scott is finishing his junior year at Georgetown—though he is older than Rachel, he took time off from college to serve a Mormon mission in Mississippi—while Rachel translates research papers from Chinese to English and works as a research assistant to a Chinese studies professor at Georgetown. Next year, she will hold a one-year fellowship with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
...current leadership team at the Harvard Management Corporation,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Harvard’s large and positive economic impact to the region is well documented, and we consider it an important outcome of fulfilling our teaching and research mission...