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By most accounts, students spend a heck of a lot of time logged onto Facebook, a circumstance that irks educators, who complain of students messaging friends or posting snarky status updates from their laptops instead of paying attention to lectures. It was this habit that first got Karpinski interested in...
The ultimate goal of many animal studies scholars—of a formal degree committee akin to those for environmental and women’s studies—may still be a long way off. But with alumni now organizing in support of the goal and many faculty members sympathetic...
With his administration on the brink of a sweeping fiscal review that could lead to layoffs, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith will host a town hall meeting today, discussing the state of the Faculty’s finances before an unprecedented group of stakeholders. In lieu...
Even without the newly proposed standardization, colleges are already subject to objective standards and at least some degree of quality control. Universities are evaluated every ten years by accrediting institutions, such as the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (for Harvard and other area institutions), are recognized by the...
Especially at the university level, where each institution has its own distinct character, regulating instruction across institutional lines only discourages intellectual diversity. Moreover, each professor who develops a course can add a different ingredient to that particular field—an aspect of higher education that makes it especially unique...