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How Should Harvard Teach Disagreement?
It should come as no surprise that a conference about disagreement began with a disagreement. President Alan M. Garber opened the thirteenth annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference with a filmed message. “As we have sought to …
Making Schools Work
I n a taxi bound for the Pierre Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Thomas Kane rehearsed the pitch he’d memorized to persuade the world’s richest man to fund a radical new approach to education reform. Ordinarily, Kane’s speech is slow and deliberate, …
Issue: March-April 2025
A Harvard Agenda Shaped by Speech
Ordinarily , a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean might be expected to devote herself to learning about colleagues’ work, en route to formulating an agenda for investment in new academic priorities and planning how to secure the financial …
November-December 2005
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July-August 2005
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The Student Commencement Speakers
The 372nd Commencement exercises on Thursday, May 25, will feature the three traditional student speakers. This year’s orators, selected in a University-wide competition, are Josiah Meadows ’23, Pallas Chou ’23, and Vic Hogg, M.P.P. ’23. Updated May 25, …
May-June 2005
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March-April 2005
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Teaching Israel/Palestine at Harvard
Since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, more and more Harvard students are considering the relations between Israelis and Palestinians. The topic frequently emerges in charged settings among like-minded students: on social media, at …
January-February 2005
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Three Cheers
We’re proud to recognize three contributors to Harvard Magazine for outstanding work on readers’ behalf during 2022, and to confer a $1,000 honorarium on each. Lincoln Caplan Photograph by Susan L. Carney The McCord Writing Prize (honoring David T.W. …
Issue: January-February 2023
At Home with Harvard: Racial Justice
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of women at Harvard, the climate crisis, …
“Shopping Week” Extended
Harvard College students’ cherished “shopping week”—for sampling classes at the start of each term before registering formally—may not have nine lives, but it has attained at least a second or third—albeit with a possibly significant modification. …
Reengineering Arts and Sciences
… living expenses would be raised substantially for the 2024-2025 academic year. The calculations are complex, but as a …
Issue: March-April 2024