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But the Five Year Plan ended one year ago and the Capital Campaign is almost yesterday's news. According to Harvard, the future is here; you are only reading this for idle amusement before putting down the paper to go to your small, well-taught Core section or interdisciplinary seminar...
Conservation Biology and Biodiversity is a small interdisciplinary seminar focusing on field biology and the social aspects of conservation. It is the only course at Harvard taught by two recipients of the Phi Beta Kappa award for teaching, Glenn Adelson and Dan Perlman; Adelson is the only current teacher at...
Students in the class meet famous environmental lawyers and government officials, talk with local farmers, reenact a court case, learn New England botany, discuss nature writing with authors, research term papers that often lead to theses and travel to Costa Rica for an in-depth look at one community's...
Not only did the students receive no response from the ESPP committee (Dean Knowles wrote only a perfunctory reply), but no student input at all was allowed in the "review" process--an astonishing display of administrative arrogance in a concentration that desperately needs restructuring. The concentration chairs refused to request...
ESPP claims that the course will return next year without Adelson and Perlman; they frame this event as just another case of regular turnover on the teaching staff. But beyond the obvious differences in content and quality that different professors would bring, we doubt that anything resembling Conservation Biology and...