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Menand praised Schuker’s performance both inside and outside of the classroom. “Lauren is not just incredibly smart and well-read and resourceful; she’s fun, one of the funnest people at Harvard, or anywhere else I’ve worked,” he wrote in an e-mail...
...remaining soldiers break into a 4th floor classroom and watch the R. Kelly “Trapped In the Closet” DVD on a Lamont TV. A debate ensues about whether Dunkin’ Donuts coffee really is both “irresistibly smooth” and “deliciously satisfying.” No consensus is reached but it is agreed that the Box ’o Joe is remarkably efficient at retaining heat. It was probably designed by NASA...
...allowed to show potential employers their grades. Ruback, who is also a senior associate dean at HBS and Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, said in an interview yesterday that the review of HBS’s grade disclosure policy was part of a wider effort to improve the classroom environment and was not prompted by any specific event.“There’s nothing special on the timing,” he said. “It’s what came on the agenda.”Under the school’s current grading system...
When Harvard was founded in 1636, the University was charged with educating ministers in creationism and other central tenets of Christianity.Three hundred and sixty-nine years later, in the midst of a national debate about God’s place in the classroom, even the University’s divinity faculty—the heirs to that theological mission—reject the latest argument for God’s role in creation: “intelligent design.”The national debate about intelligent design marks the latest front in the battle between proponents of teaching creationism...
...Understanding Computers and the Internet” can receive credit for the course and access certain resources, but Podcasting has also increased awareness about Extension School classes.“The Podcast nonetheless offers, to anyone in the world with an Internet connection, a glimpse into the classroom of the Extension School’s most introductory computer science course,” Malan wrote.Indeed, Malan has received enthusiastic e-mails from people in Mexico, to France to Austria, all thanking him for his educational Podcasts.Harvard is not the first university to offer Podcasted lectures. Princeton University?...