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...book projects—her nonfiction country music guide, a retelling of “The Tempest” through the lens of gender and race, a book about Abu Ghraib and black conservatives, and an Austen-style novel set in the U.S. This fall, she’ll teach at Vanderbilt University as a writer in residence.“She’s a little dynamo,” said Joan T. Bok ’51, former chairman of the Board of Overseers and a mentor to Randall. Bok met Randall more than 25 years ago through...
...anything meaningful prior to my arrival in the Yard I was in seventh grade, I was running for elementary school vice president, and the main plank of my opponent’s platform was candy for lunch. Through a shrewd bit of skill, I promised students that they could teach for a day, and they elected me president the following year. What bumps in the road I encountered were few, far between, and easily weathered...
...Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and of University President Lawrence H. Summers. We reiterate Kirby’s warning in his annual Letter to the Faculty this year, that “Harvard is otherwise at risk of becoming a great university with merely sub-par undergraduate teaching.” This, then, is the function and gravity of the curricular review. In short, it’s time to get moving. The review is the work of eight different committees, the most wide-reaching and controversial of which was the Committee on General Education...
...into academia, you’re expected to master your subject...until you’ve clocked enough time and can teach that subject until you die. Journalists are exactly the opposite,” he explains. “Journalists all have a little...
Today, many of the safety measures demanded by students in 1980 have become a reality. Members of Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) teach a “Rape Aggression and Defense Program” which, according to the HUPD website, “empowers female students, faculty, and staff to combat various types of assaults by providing them with realistic self-defense tactics and techniques...