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...carry the curriculum. “It’s not a magic bullet,” former Dean of the College and Computer Science Professor Harry R. Lewis ’68 says of the use of technology in the classroom. TRANSFORMING INTO SOMETHING ‘TRANSFORMATIVE?? The Gen Ed committee dedicated its first few months to trying to define what kinds of classes would fit into each of the eight categories mandated by the Gen Ed legislation of 2007, according to committee members—an indication of just how vague its terms were viewed...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen Ed Forced To Get Practical | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...African nations, said former Bush administration official Jendayi E. Frazer at an Institute of Politics forum last night. Frazer, formerly the leading architect of U.S. Africa policy as U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 2005 to 2009, called the initiatives she spearheaded “transformative?? and said that the new administration should build on its predecessor’s success by increasing dialogue with African leaders to address the myriad health, economic, and political problems that plague the continent. “You need to work with people on the ground...

Author: By Kevin Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP Hosts Expert on African Affairs | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...then there was the timing. It was being proposed at a time when a humiliated GOP base was being asked to sit and watch a “transformative?? Democratic president walk on water. How many details of a $900 billion spending bill would it take to provoke a furious negative response from the Republican base...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: The Glass-Is-Half-Empty Strategy | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...that are often bandied about as a panacea for the ills of American higher education. I, like most people at Harvard, know numerous people that have studied abroad—though usually only for a semester, merely half the length Brooks recommends for a properly “transformative?? experience. While everyone I know who has gone abroad has enjoyed the experience, the situation is perhaps not quite what Brooks had in mind. Student recollections of semesters abroad usually fall into two main components. First, those happily lengthy commentaries on the intensity, frequency, and general delightfulness of drinking...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis, | Title: Foreign Affairs | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

Brian Palmer, who created and teaches Religion 1529, said he and the head teaching fellow, Kate Holbrook, thought the experience of interviewing people “whose courage and commitment have made a difference in the world” would be “transformative?? for students and teachers...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Reich Kicks Off Late Bid for Mass. Governor | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

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