mitchelltsai: Barely made it to Sausalito Sweat Your Prayers after UA BOS-SFO luggage was delayed for 1/2 hr. Deciding between museums or BAH hoop jam. - http://twitter.com/mitchel...
President Faust's talk, class of 1988 survey, & faculty "TED" talks boring. Most interesting was reading "Poor Economics" & "The Truly Disadvantaged" at the Coop. https://twitter.com/mitchel...
Drew Faust (president), Michael Smith (Dean FAS), & John Smith (Professor Engineering) talked about the recent Harvard cheating scandal, subsequent e-mail search scandal (Why did Harvard administration not "ask" the deans for permission to look at their e-mails? duh...), rising cost of college (Harvard's $40,000 "financial aid" initiative & the 2007 "middle class" initiative - where families under $200,000/yr income pay less), and collaborative education. http://nytimes.com/2007...
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Pres. Faust said the 2007 "middle class" initiative scared other schools into similar financial aid packages. An audience member started this line of questioning - he felt that Harvard maybe should lead other colleges in reducing the cost of undergraduate education, and Pres. Faust response was that Harvard was doing it with innovative financial aid packages.
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Diversitas? Take a Closer Look [Justin Lanning, Crimson - 1/26/12] http://thecrimson.com/article... ~45.6% Harvard undergraduates come from families with $200,000+ incomes. Only ~4% of Harvard undergraduates come from the bottom quintile of U.S. incomes, and a mere 17.8% come from the bottom three quintiles of U.S. incomes. (Justin's logic...
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Former Harvard President Larry H. Summers, who launched the Financial Aid Initiative, declared in 2004, “We need to recognize that the most serious domestic problem in the United States today is the widening gap between the children of the rich and the children of the poor. Education is the most powerful weapon we have to address that problem.” Aid Isn’t Enough [Sandra Korn, Crimson - 9/27/12] http://thecrimson.com/column...
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Sandra Korn writes: If Harvard’s administrators are committed to increasing the number of working-class and middle-class students at Harvard, they must address the structural roots of educational inequality. ... Harvard’s tuition continues to rise at a much higher rate than inflation each year, and Harvard seems unlikely to take the lead in moving towards inexpensive higher education.
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Collaborative Education - In a world of interconnection, are individual grades still useful?
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Class of 1988 Survey. (1) Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" was supported more by women in $500,000+ income bracket than women in <$150,000 income bracket (Median income $200,000-350,000). http://newsfeed.time.com/2013... (2) $150,000/yr income was "tipping point" between people have midlife crises & being satisfied with their lives & careers. (3) 49%...
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mitchelltsai: President Faust's talk, class of 1988 survey, & faculty "TED" talks boring. Read "Poor Economics" & "The Truly Disadvantaged" at the Coop. - http://twitter.com/mitchel...
INTERSECTIONS: OUR FUTURE LIVES AND PUBLIC POLICY (Tue May 28 9:00–10:30 am, Science Center B) A panel discussion and audience dialogue will look at how public programs, especially Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, as well as social and technological changes, have affected and will affect our lives and the lives of our children and grandchildren.
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HOW ARE YOU HAPPY—AGING AND SOURCES OF SATISFACTION (Tue May 28 1:45–3:15 pm, Sanders Theatre) A moderated class dialogue on sources of happiness and satisfaction while aging—in relationship to retirement, second careers, and play. The scene will be set by Robert Waldinger of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, based on the Harvard Study of Adult Development (a 75-year longitudinal study of Harvard graduates).
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QUINTESSENCE ’63: PART I (Tue May 28 10:45 am - noon, SC B) (1) The Difficulty of Being Good: The Indian Concept of Dharma and the Search for a More Meaningful Life (2) Moral Injury: What Is It and Why Does It Matter? (3) Electoral Dysfunction
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(4) Against the Odds: Empowering Low-Income Young People to Rebuild Their Communities and Their Lives; and Persuading the Federal Government to Invest in Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Injustice in America (5) My Brush with Obstruction of Justice as White House Counsel (6) Strategic Charity: What We 70-somethings Can Best Do to Put It All Together Before It All Falls Apart!
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QUINTESSENCE ’63: PART III (Wed May 29 3:00–4:00 pm, Sanders) (2) Is Money Obsolete?—How to Think About Inflation, Debt, and Federal Policy (3) What Does Environmental Protection Protect?—Defining ‘Environment’ in Environmental Politics and Policy (4) The Future of Medicine: Integrative Medicine and the Healing of the Whole Person
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