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A Note to Readers
… In this issue , atypically, there are two Forum essays written by faculty members, … drawing on their research and addressing public issues of the day: American energy policy (see "Time to Electrify" … "Colleges in Crisis" ). Both seem timely, when the future of the nation—and of many other countries—depends not only …
Issue: July-August 2011
Curriculum Queries
… Highlights of a faculty symposium on the most pressing issues in undergraduate education Several … on the public aims of higher education, leaving the enterprise vulnerable to analysis only in terms of its direct …
Sally Donahue
… In a job where the workload is steadily expanding—a record 35,000 … to Harvard College last year—Sally Donahue, director of financial aid at the College and senior admissions … two or three times, runs five miles, and on three mornings rises at 4:15 to drive from Duxbury to row at Union Boat …
Issue: September-October 2011
Teen Grind Culture
… are live participants in an unprecedented experiment, as the sudden ubiquity of smartphones and hyper-engaging social media influences … navigate this landscape, amid evidence that the prevalence of anxiety and depression has increased sharply among …
Issue: March-April 2025
Erika Bailey
… Like many young thespians, Erika Bailey once dreamed of acting Ibsen and Molière. Eventually, though, the years of auditions wore on her. “As an actor, you’re always asking …
Issue: July-August 2018
Bringing Minds and Money to Bear on Teaching
… Six days before the public launch of The Harvard Campaign, in which the … the use of MOOCs (Coursera and Udacity, two MOOC enterprises, were created by Stanford faculty members). He …
Great Expectations
… Late in the evening of Friday, September 16, after nearly 53 minutes of indifferent play in its season opener against Merrimack , …
Issue: November-December 2022
Zvon Song?
… hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." According to the Moscow Times, the monks of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow are preparing a formal petition to Harvard for the return of the clangorous Lowell House bells. The bells were taken …
Issue: March-April 2003
Reparations for Slavery?
… Should the United States pay reparations for slavery? As … is, the federal government in fact has a long history of providing compensation to people who have suffered harms … for slavery seems a striking omission. When the subject arises, says Brooks, former president and CEO of the NAACP, …
Issue: November-December 2022
Imaging Public Health
… Images are integral to the way human beings understand the world around them. As a … R. Peterson ’82 knows that, particularly in the world of medicine, images can help people comprehend how their own … Peterson works as a photographer primarily for the website of South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s On Call . The live, …
Issue: January-February 2008
Grad Students Call on Harvard to Remain Neutral in Union Bid
… Hundreds of graduate students gathered at the Science Center plaza for a “union block party” … form a labor union. The demonstration culminated a year of vocal activism for student unionization at the Graduate …
Reardon to Retire
… John P. “Jack” Reardon ’60, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA)—known for diplomacy, … his long University career—will step down at the end of June. Hired in 1965 by another renowned Harvard veteran …
Issue: March-April 2014
Read All About It
… Beyond its reunion symposiums, the class of 1950 has elicited reviews of the state of knowledge--and the state of the world--from …
Own Goals
… without making matters worse for itself. Yet after handling the pro-Palestinian encampment in the Old Yard from April 24 … without heavy-handed policing), the University’s way of disciplining the participants subsequently was a mess. It … the new and threatening challenges to the academic enterprise in the late 1960s, faculty leaders created the …
Issue: September-October 2024
Harvard Headlines, from Romantic to Grim
… National media outlets have been covering the grim story of a University of Alabama neurobiologist who allegedly shot and killed …