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The Future of the Liberal Arts Lies Beyond Harvard’s Gates | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (1566+ words) Dexter Gate, my favorite entrance into Harvard Yard, famously bears two missives. Its invitation, “Enter To Grow in Wisdom,” has been of particular focus lately. The College is facing an inflection point in its history, prompted by public scrutiny, rampant…...
A Fundamental Reckoning Awaits the Humanities. It Shouldn’t Alarm Us. | Opinion
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (534+ words) For nearly the past year, I have devoted myself to studying the rise and fall of classical education in the American university in general, and at Harvard in particular. I am not an alarmist about the state of my field,…...
Against the Culture of Early Certainty | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (665+ words) Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative Harvard Management Company Opens San Francisco Office Amid Shift Toward Tech Investments As a freshman, I supposedly have my whole college education and life ahead of me. So why…...
For a More Ambitious Humanities | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (266+ words) The humanities are getting smaller, and they’re thinking smaller, too. It is no well-kept secret that the humanities are in crisis. Enrollment numbers make this evident: the proportion of humanities degrees halved nationwide from 1966 to 2010. At Harvard, the number of…...
Rethinking a Humanities Education: The Brook Farm Institute | Magazine
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (652+ words) The Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies, which launches its first seminars next month, is a non-profit institute offering online and in-person courses on the humanities and social sciences. The institute’s upcoming seminars include courses in a wide range of…...
From Chimpanzee Novels to Crowdsourced Astronomy: How the Radcliffe Institute’s 51 New Fellows Study the World | News | The Harvard Crimson
11+ mon, 6+ day ago (712+ words) Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study welcomed its 26th cohort of fellows, who will undertake interdisciplinary research projects ranging from investigating the importance of human connection in an age of AI to studying indigenous birchbark bookmaking as a form of environmental…...
No Grades, Just ‘Profound Discussion’: The Humanities Reading Group | Magazine
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (840+ words) These students form the Humanities Reading Group, a forum for undergraduates, graduates, and faculty devoted to careful reading of difficult texts. Formed in response to students’ calls for an intellectually stimulating space to probe texts in the humanities without the…...
Humanities Departments Are in Trouble, but ‘Applied Humanities’ Are in Demand, Harvard Panelists Say | News | The Harvard Crimson
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (626+ words) Humanities Departments Are in Trouble, but ‘Applied Humanities’ Are in Demand, Harvard Panelists Say Harvard Endowment Appoints 3 New Directors, Including JPMorgan Exec Who Managed Epstein’s Bank Accounts On Survey of Harvard Undergrads, 63% of Respondents Favored Divestment from Israel Summers Visited…...
Changing Grades Won’t Fix the Humanities — Here’s What Will | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (612+ words) Opioid Overdoses, Deaths Decreased in Cambridge in 2024 Cambridge Nonprofits Scramble to Fill Gap Left By SNAP Delay At Harvard Talk, Princeton President Says Colleges Should Set Clear Time, Manner, Place Rules for Protests In Tug-of-War Over Harvard Salient’s Future, Board…...