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Before he left, we lauded West as “a respected scholar and a mentor to many undergraduates” and asked him to stay. But after the manner in which he departed, the University is better off without him. West’s recent behavior is destined to tarnish his otherwise commendable legacy at Harvard...
Kevin A. Sabet is a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University where he is studying for a Ph.D. in drug policy issues. He is a former speech writer former Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey...
...There’s a strong concern to maintain the tradition, the Ivy League tradition of scholar-athletes and to agree together to maintain academic standards—not to sacrifice academic standards to the objectives of athletic recruitment,” Summers said...
...academic leader and scholar of education, incoming Dean of the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Ellen Condliffe Lagemann brings impressive credentials to one of Harvard’s most often overlooked schools. Her aggressive recruitment by University President Lawrence H. Summers bodes well for top administrative appointments in the future...
Last week, the New York Times argued that the scholar-athlete, who could perform as well in the classroom as on the field, is a relic of the past—and one to be sorely missed. Athletes, unlike fine musicians or writers, simply cannot “add to the intellectual and cultural stew that makes college campuses exciting.” (To be honest, I doubt I was accepted for this particular reason, either.) Pointing to data collected by James Shulman and William Bowen, the Times dismissed any contributions athletes might make at a school: they self-segregate...