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Business schools are responding. According to the 2005 Beyond Grey Pinstripes survey of business schools, the number of core courses with nonprofit-related content has more than doubled, from 10 to 21, at the 49 schools that have participated since 2003. The number of electives with a social or environmental focus-- including courses that explore entrepreneurial solutions to social problems--has almost tripled among the 24 schools that have participated in every survey since 2001, from 137 to 468. Net Impact, a global network of M.B.A. students, graduates and professionals trying to find business-based solutions to change the world...
...impact on what is supposed to be Evangelicalism's core mission worries many believers, and raises concerns that should, some say, be discussed long past Christmas Sunday. "This is a terrible witness and a tacit admission that church is not important to us," says Witherington. "To Joe Secular, we might as well have put a white flag up on the church's front lawn...
...formerly avant-garde field is evolving into a downright standard presence at major schools, and the departments boast distinguished faculty, modern facilities, and filled-to-capacity courses.VES Professor in Film Studies David N. Rodowick instructs one such course—the first film class offered in the Core curriculum, Literature & Arts B-11, “The Art of Film.” Despite the red-hot student interest, Rodowick understands he owes much of his popularity to the work of former faculty.“There’s been a long conversation about the legitimacy of the Film...
...visual intelligence. Few undergraduates, even Harvard undergraduates, see such tests until they are being interviewed for jobs as investment bankers and consultants.” Unfortunately, the resources that Harvard students require to gain the visual education Professor Stilgoe prescribes are slow in coming. Plans for a Stilgoe-led Core curriculum course to treat these topics have been indefinitely postponed due to a lack of qualified graduate students TFs. Professor Stilgoe does believe Harvard is beginning to recognize the importance of Environmental Studies, however belatedly: “Now that Duke and Stanford are developing strong programs in fields similar...
...left and the right, religious Muslims in the Middle East feel a stronger affinity to members of different faiths in the Western world than non-observant Muslims. While American Christians might not agree with their Muslim counterparts, according to Sennott, “there’s a core in the American dialogue where they’d at least talk about it.” This combats the kind of isolation felt by the London bombers, he said. Director of the KSG’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy Alex S. Jones questioned Sennott...