Thursday, April 21, 2022

Preregistration is the Enemy of Liberal Education, and Other Crimson Op-Eds

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The Harvard Crimson yesterday published my op-ed on preregistration (AKA the end of "shopping period"), a matter expected to be vo...
Monday, March 7, 2022

Harvard College moves toward a planned educational economy

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 A recent meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was devoted largely to undergraduate education. That is a rarity, and an uninformed re...
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Monday, February 14, 2022

In memory of Fred Abernathy

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My colleague and friend Fred Abernathy passed away a few days ago, at the age of 91. A fine obituary is here . Fred was my mentor and collab...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Parents and preregistration

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  A few years ago, the computer science faculty took it upon themselves to increase the number of first-year advisors in their ranks. They h...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Harvard loses a piece of its soul—and then another

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For the past 20 years or so, Harvard has been trying to rid itself, bit by bit, of its distinctiveness. At the same time as it touts its num...
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Monday, August 30, 2021

Blown to Bits -- Second Edition now available for free download!

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  Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion  is now available in its second edition! This is the book abo...
Saturday, August 7, 2021

Learning as Service

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 This is the text of an address I gave (by Zoom) to a symposium on Service Learning organized by the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. At...
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