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...While most of the nation’s top universities??€”including Harvard—still slant their curricula heavily toward the liberal arts, the effect is that many students spend their college days reading about everything from dinosaurs to Descartes, but then leave Cambridge for jobs completely unrelated to their course work. This dichotomy of the education and subsequent lives of Harvard students begs the question: amid the growing emphasis on professional preparation, just how relevant are the liberal arts to the lives of undergraduates...
...last year’s level. With inflation, this effectively represents a decrease in the real value of funding to the NIH. This perverse budgetary approach to American science has come at terrible time, considering the great potential in biomedical fields. Harvard—among other preeminent research universities??€”is driving advances in biomedical and biotechnology research, but it relies heavily on federal funding to support current momentum. Last year Harvard received grants of $329 million from the NIH—by far its principal stream of federal research funding. Thankfully, University President Drew G. Faust recognizes...
Most recently, a slew of elite universities??€”led by Harvard and followed by Yale, Stanford, and a host of others—significantly expanded financial aid offerings, potentially making them even more attractive to applicants who had been previously dissuaded by the sticker shock of high tuition...
Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, said he has asked leaders of Hillel—the national umbrella organization for Harvard and more than 500 other colleges and universities??€”to issue a statement condemning the Harvard chapter for “promoting programs and material that don’t promote love and respect for Israel...
...also preserve healthful options like whole-wheat pizza, brown rice, and organic peanut butter, as well as the already limited organic and vegetarian fare. In defense of HUDS’ menu changes, HUDS representatives have framed rising food prices as a universal problem. This may be true, but other universities??€™ dining services have adapted without sacrificing the health of students. Last week’s Crimson reported that Boston College Dining Services, which charges students per item, has slightly increased the prices of certain items rather than reduce variety. More significantly, Yale University Dining Services has neither eliminated...