HARVARD RADICAL
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James Joyner | Saturday, August 23, 2003 |
James Traub has an engaging profile of Harvard’s Larry Summers, who despite his Clinton Administration ties has become the Weekly Standard’s ”favorite university president.” He gained a lot of notoriety for his clash with Cornel West and the Afro-American studies department but his agenda is quite far-reaching and ambitious. Ultimately, he wants to make the academy understand that it is part of the society at large and to become more engaged in providing service to that society at the expense of the provincial interests that tned to dominate elite institutions. His campaign to make the curriculum more scientific and empirical, if successful, will likely transform higher education as we know if, given Harvard’s status.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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