Six years in, Harvard’s Intellectual Vitality Initiative has become a fixture of College life and handed out nearly $200,000 in grants. But under College Dean David J. Deming, the program has taken a quieter, more student-driven turn.
Arti Garg, a candidate for Harvard’s Board of Overseers, said schools like Harvard should foster open, respectful debate as conversations across ideological and political differences grow more strained on campus and beyond.
Harvard, by its own account, is home to world-class faculty — scholars whose expertise gives students access to some of the most refined and developed perspectives in academia.
A former Harvard College dean reviews Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber’s book Terms of Respect.
Professor of Government Eric Beerbohm asked a packed Sanders Theatre audience of first-years to debate a provocative question: How do we value our friends who disagree with us?
The question stemmed from a dining hall conversation he had with a student in...
U.S. colleges and universities have for the most part done a good job protecting and promoting campus discourse in recent years, according to Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber. They have not, however, escaped the divisions affecting institutions...
Harvard has a peculiar gift for turning self-reflection into spectacle. The University’s latest act of introspection — a report on grade inflation — was meant to provide context for ongoing conversations about recentering academics. Instead it has taken...
