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Purcell said that Spellings, the former Secretary of Education, will not only bring "a life of public service" to Harvard, but her knowledge of education??"one of the most important and timely issues facing our nation...
Jennings said that his difficult childhood and a challenging experience at Harvard shaped the way he thinks about education??and how he believes Harvard can make progress in the future...
Among the changes advocated by Bunting-Smith was the affiliation of Harvard Houses with Radcliffe dorms, the first of which were between Quincy House and Holmes and Comstock Halls. These affiliations were aimed at raising the level of what Bunting-Smith called “dinner-table education?? at Radcliffe. They also granted women accessibility to scholarly conversations with professors and research assistants that had previously only been granted to male students...
Similarly, other schools like the Harvard Graduate School of Education??which was promised a piece of the Allston campus that the University envisioned in 2003—have had to reevaluate plans to reflect the changed timeline of Allston expansion...
...intellectual passion is clearly worthwhile, but to do so with blinders on is to risk a narrowness of perspective that becomes limiting later on. It is this appreciation of breadth and the intellectual flexibility that comes with it that first attracted me to a liberal-arts education??first as a student and then as a faculty member. Today, the teaching of science in a liberal-arts setting is a continued source of excitement and inspiration...