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… On Diversity As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments this spring on the University of Michigan's race-conscious admissions policies, Harvard will file a brief supporting the right of higher-education institutions to consider race as a …
Issue: March-April 2003
Joculor, Ergo Sum
… From their freshman year in college they were inseparable pals, once called “the Mutt and Jeff of post-Kantian idealism.” That epithet somehow failed to … Philosophy and humor “do spring from a common enterprise: taking a common wisdom and flipping it on its head,” …
Issue: May-June 2007
Fashion Victims?
… I’ve seen it every day for three years now. Take your pick of location: the main doors of Sever and Emerson Halls when classes let out, the wooden …
Adjacent but Unequal
… Within that cohort, he documented separate groups: the “privileged poor,” who had gained access to day, … introduced them to the social norms and academic culture of elite higher education (for example, making use of office hours); and the “doubly disadvantaged,” whose path …
Issue: March-April 2019
Public Health As Aspiration
… Opening the Commencement ceremony at the Harvard Chan School of … refugees, earthquake victims, and others in desperate need of care,” she said. “Ordinarily, Dr. Al Safadi would be …
Alumni News
… Aloian Winners Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian '49, a former executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) and master of Quincy House, the Aloian Memorial Scholarships recognize …
Issue: November-December 2002
Centennial Medalists
… Each June, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2007
Update: Harvard Law School Faculty Approves Open Access
… In a unanimous vote, members of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty have approved making their scholarly articles available on line free of charge. HLS is the first law school to take this action, …
Ballmer Boosts Harvard Computer Science
… Steve Ballmer ’77, then president of Microsoft, and William H. (Bill) Gates III … and the longer-term planned development of an “enterprise” campus on Harvard-owned property at Allston Landing, …
Sanctions Truce
… In the wake of Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana’s decision … to sanctions beginning with students enrolling this August, the most visible opponents of the policy have stepped back from challenging it through …
Cambridge 02138
… The Lure of Coins “Picking Harvard’s Pocket” by Christopher … Emerson is the author of Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture. Frost on a Blustery Day … Duncan M. Porter, Ph.D. ’67 Blacksburg, Va. An Enterprise Requiring New Clothes Caille millner’s column “Fashion …
Faculty Well-Being: A Status Report
… For the first time, Harvard has asked its faculty members how … are. A survey conducted last November by the two-year-old Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (OFDD) measured the …
Issue: November-December 2007
Harvard at Home
… The on-line venture Harvard at Home gives alumni glimpses of … happenings throughout the University. Among the newest offerings is "Perspectives on China: Reform and …
Issue: May-June 2002
University People
… Dean Dench Emma Dench Rose Lincoln/HPAC McLean professor of ancient and modern history and of the classics Emma Dench , the interim dean of the Graduate …
Issue: May-June 2018
Boosting Teacher Training
… Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) —renowned for research spanning … teachers for classroom careers. As it prepares to welcome the inaugural cohort of Teaching and Teacher Leadership (TTL) master’s degree …