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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is reviewing the disciplinary processes of both Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, months after many professors criticized the schools’ sanctions against pro-Palestine protesters as inconsistent and excessive.
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By S. Mac Healey and Saketh Sundar. • 5 hours ago. History professor Derek J. Penslar and Harvard Law School Professor Noah R. Feldman ’92 discussed Jewish identity at Harvard and shifting discourse on Israel over the past year in an event on Tuesday marking the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
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Editorials. Don’t Trip. Vote ‘Yes’ on Ballot Question 4. By The Crimson Editorial Board. • Yesterday. Decriminalization will both destigmatize drug usage and, most importantly, provide safe, regulated avenues for those who choose to use them. Voting “yes” on Ballot Question 4 will help achieve these goals. Editorials.
The Inflated Fixation on Grade Inflation
Oct 20, 2023 · “Getting in” to Harvard is the hard part, succeeding in classes is easy, or so the lore goes — and a report presented to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences revealing staggering grade inflation and grade compression rates at the College may be the most damning evidence of this yet.. While faculty are now raising concerns in response to this report — which shows that 79 percent of grades ...
Harvard Law Professor Ramseyer Responds to Critics, Sparking …
Feb 16, 2022 · Harvard History professor Andrew D. Gordon ’74 and Korean History professor Carter J. Eckert — whose response to Ramseyer’s original article was the primary focus of the rebuttal he published last month — wrote in a statement that Ramseyer’s response is a “classic example of misdirection.”
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The Harvard Crimson, the nation's oldest continuously published daily college newspaper, was founded in 1873 and incorporated in 1967. The newspaper traces its history to the first issue of “The Magenta,” published on Jan. 24, 1873, and changed its name to “The Crimson” to reflect the new color of the College on May 21, 1875.
Sam Lessin: Pritzker’s Presidential Mulligan and How to Secure …
May 23, 2024 · Third, the Corporation needs to revise the criteria for selecting new members of their body and the Overseers to guarantee that the incentives of those in charge are aligned with success for the University and support for the right president now and in the future.
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Jul 1, 2023 · Released more than two years after University President Lawrence S. Bacow created the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, the report found that prominent Harvard faculty, staff, donors, and presidents enslaved more than 70 Black and Indigenous people over a period of about 150 years. The committee, chaired by Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin, also found that ...
Crimson Unclear: Anxiety and Confusion in the Wake of Harvard’s …
Apr 24, 2023 · During the January 2022 Omicron variant surge, wastewater viral loads and case counts spiked. On Jan. 12, 2022, when Harvard announced that infected students would isolate rather than quarantine in University-provided isolation housing — and cut the required isolation period for infected students in half — Middlesex County reported more than 4,800 cases per day.
Editorial Snippets: Affirmative Action Edition | Opinion | The …
Nov 4, 2022 · On the very eve of the Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College trial, we asked our Editorial editors to reflect on what affirmative action means to them, and the impact that the initiative’s downfall could have on Harvard.