The Liberal Arts and Harvard.A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Has Harvard Lost Its Way?," by Harry R. Lewis in the March 24, 2006 issue.HerrickProfessorEarlProfessorM.ProfessorChronicle of Higher Education...
Harvard Business School’s online digital education initiative has announced that it has entered into agreements to work with several U.S. liberal arts colleges to provide additional benefits for their students taking the Credential of Readiness (CORe) program. CORe is an online program, consisting ...
What did the author think of the Harvards efforts in redesigning liberal arts program? A. It was carefully designed and therefore should prove effective. B. It spoiled the purpose of the present general education program. C. It enabled students to appreciate the ways they gained knowledge. D....
In his bookIn Defense of a Liberal Education, Zakaria defines liberal arts education as that which teaches students how to think, how to write, and how to learn. Zakaria argued that such skills are absent in his own country of India. It is at Yale and Harvard that Zakaria learned l...
Bishop graduated from Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania) in 1957 and from Harvard Medical School in 1962. After spending two years in internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, he became a researcher in virology at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. In 1968...
”Think effectively, communicate thought, make relevant judgments, discriminate among values,” stated Harvard’s James Q. Wilson, when explaining the purpose of core classes. He said this in 1977 to TIME magazine and the philosophy supporting the purpose of liberal arts-style education has not ch...
aDesigned to connect the spirit of free inquiry that defines Harvard life with career and civic life beyond college, the Program in General Education is a vital part of your degree. This set of courses from across the spectrum of liberal arts and sciences explores fascinating social, cultural,...
Schmidt: The Liberal Arts College: A Chapter in American Cultural History. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1957. Pp. x, 310. $6.00.) - 2Vivian Ogilvie: The English Public School. (New York: Macmillan, 1957. Pp. xii, 228. $6.00.) - 3I. L. Kandel: American Education in ...
the freedom from unwarranted searches of private property and communications," but "[t]he existence of databases storing our private communication conveys a certain degree of power to the few with access," and he warned that the NSA risked alienating the mathematicians on which it depends. He re...
aHarvard’s ability to attract and support exceptional students from China and some 130 other countries, from Albania to Zambia, benefits everyone: The students enjoy the opportunity of learning at a leading research university committed to the liberal arts. They, in turn, broaden the conversation...