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...rare splurge amidst the University’s belt tightening—which was formed to promote the use of economics research in crafting public policy. “I want LEAP to be the place policy makers come to get evidence,” said Economics Professor Raj Chetty, who helped found the program as part of his tenure offer at Harvard in 2008. Funding has been allocated on the order of $1 million from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—a major contribution, considering the $77 million round of budget cuts this spring. And though...
...productive interactions between students and their course material, some concentrators feel that the modifications to the advising system have need for improvement.First introduced this past spring, the English department has entirely remodeled its course options and its approach to advising. Presently, concentrators can decide to keep their sophomore tutorial professor as their advisor if they so choose. For those students lacking such an opportunity, whether because the professor has left Harvard or because the student would prefer a different advisor, the department offers a team-strategy advising system, comprised of Undergraduate Program Administrator Jeff Berg, Director of Undergraduate Studies Professor...
Disturbing fact of the day: 41% of college students know of someone (which includes themselves) who has slept with a professor or teacher's assistant. Talk about a teacher...
...behavior. Many of the estimated 100,000 young offenders across the nation are from troubled families in which there was parental abuse and neglect. Most have drug- or alcohol-abuse problems, more than half have mental-health problems, and many suffer educational disabilities. No wonder Fred Cohen, a professor emeritus of law and criminal justice at SUNY Albany, says the juvenile facilities have become dumping grounds for society's "throwaway kids." (See TIME's video "Inside Mexico's Overcrowded Prisons...
...Cabinet, and Ozawa's party. I don't think Ozawa will meddle on the policy side. He has his dream job - another crack at sticking the knife into the LDP heart without the distasteful job of being accountable to the media." Gerald Curtis, a Japanese-politics expert and professor at Columbia University, says the Hatoyama Administration is a game changer in Japanese politics - and that Ozawa's objective has changed as well. The key question, he says: "Does Hatoyama as Prime Minister have the leadership ability to say, 'This is what needs to be done,' and insist it get done...