Today, former Dean of Harvard College Harry Lewis has a piece on Bits and Pieces proposing a characteristically Lewisian crazy idea modest proposal to reform higher ed: "[W]hat if there were ONLY [minors]? Get rid of [majors]. Have departments, and interdepartmental committees, offer '[minors],' and require
To quote another another commentator today: The Crimson has an op-ed on simultaneous enrollment that I agree with. (That's Michael Mitzenmacher, blogging at his own My Biased Coin, whose own op-ed in response is also worth reading.) I'll let Prof. Mitz do the explaining-of-background: Harvard does
Today on Bucket o' Links (sorry, what?), we've got fall classes, textbooks, book-books, Harvard admission statistics, and, of course, Guardians of the Galaxy. 1 It's shopping week at Harvard. Study cards aren't due until next week, so students have a week free to
I'm stealing a good idea from a friend, who stole it from a friend. It goes like this: Fridays, I'll write up a post that consists of seven cool (or interesting, or important...) things I found elsewhere on the internet (or in bookspace, or whatever). That&
This is part 4 of a 4-part series addressed to the author's brother, discussing the author's perspective on "elite education". [ | ] First, to wrap up our interlude of other people's insights, a zinger from one of my favorite professors ever, Dr. Margo Seltzer: