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Training Leaders to Transform Education
… Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has created a new doctor of education … changes in K-12 education. Dean Kathleen McCartney said the program aims to teach its students “how to create … practice.” That means helping leaders find ways to rise above the details of budgets, legislation, or placating …
Issue: November-December 2009
Faculty Tensions II: Battling over Benefits
… At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on November … The administration warns us that health care costs might rise more in the future, so we should plan ahead. Of course, … though, it is quite possible that costs will not rise dramatically; and yet the University is locking in this …
Financial Crisis: Confidence—and Some Cautions
… This post summarizes the October 13 panel discussion on "Leadership for the … by journalist and television host Charlie Rose and a pair of addresses on globalization... The planners of the Harvard … and preparing for a future in which the world population rises from six bilion to nine billion while the share of …
Antisemitism on Campuses
… As Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack and the ensuing war in the Middle East reverberated on college … departments felt the impacts more acutely than others. Professors of Jewish studies, antisemitism studies, and Israel … within the university. He said that the “deeply troubling rise in antisemitism” can be traced to polarization and lack …
America's Stake in the Multilateral World
… Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, LL.D. '03, president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000 and now director of Yale's Center for the Study of Globalization, delivered the following address … the prevention of evils such as international financial crises, recessions, and now deflation, international …
Issue: September-October 2003
Still Serving
… Restaurants come and go, in the Square as elsewhere, but, happily, some standbys endure. … a dark and smoky basement watering hole that drew crowds of artists and intellectuals, along with everybody else who … In 1972 there was a popular disco upstairs. But in a sign of the often unpredictable times, the club’s co-owner was …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Senior Marshals
… Photograph by Stu Rosner The senior marshals , looking ahead to Commencement 2003, … from top left) first marshal Krishnan Subrahmanian , of Pforzheimer House and Woodbury, Minnesota; second marshal Laurence Patrick Noonan , of Quincy House and North Easton, Massachusetts; Deanna …
Issue: May-June 2003
Pound, On the Record
… With only a couple of hours to go before the opening reception for Damon Krukowski: NOT TO BE … on an analog phone, why pop singers’ voices now seem to arise out of nowhere, erupting out of a “digital black” …
The Tiger Roars
… Princeton is not Harvard. Smaller, more intimate, it offers superb undergraduate and doctoral education in the liberal arts and engineering and applied sciences, without the huge professional schools (business, law, medicine) that shine so …
Issue: May-June 2016
Harvard, H.H.R., Houghton
… Henry Hobson Richardson , A.B. 1859, the leading nineteenth-century American architect—Boston’s … Trinity Church, a major role in the design of the New York State Capitol, libraries, important … Given the unabashedly Harvardian character of the enterprise, the selections from the book presented here will be …
Issue: November-December 2024
Scenes From The Game
… On November 20, the Crimson logged their fourth straight win over the Elis in the Harvard-Yale … see some memorable moments from The Game 2010. … A gallery of images from the 2010 Harvard-Yale football game … 29667 … …
Issue: January-February 2011
TOEFL and Me
… a summer in Seoul Monday through Friday, my students begin their day with an 8 a.m. practice TOEFL exam. The Test of English as a Foreign Language is one of the many exams … “The man and she used to gamble together on slot machines,” “She wants to hit the man but she is so happy …
The Oldest Ever?
… Walter Seward, LL.B. ’24, turned 109 in October, making him the oldest living—and longest lived—Harvard alumnus known. … If I didn’t exercise, I know I’d become something made of plastic.” Seward, who lives in his own home in West Orange, New Jersey, last visited the law school on August 23, 2004—which Dean Elena Kagan …
Issue: January-February 2006
Just Perfect
… Slate-gray skies and trepidation shrouded the home side of Harvard Stadium late in the afternoon of … long before the Murphy era—to the overwhelmingly efficient machines of a century ago molded by Percy D. Haughton, A.B. …
Issue: January-February 2015
A Tale of Two Cameras
… The 20 x 24 and the Museum Camera could be seen as fraternal … born in 1976, and sprang from abruptly announced desires of Polaroid co-founder Edwin Land ’30, S.D. ’57. The former … to juice up the 1976 shareholders’ meeting, upstaging one of the company’s hot new products—8-by-10-inch film for …