SANDRA Y.L. KORN
Department of Gender Studies?
What does a discipline so used to being excluded from spaces of power—in fact, a discipline built up on critique of the institutions of power—do when it is offered a seat at the table?
Harvard’s Exploitation in Chile
Harvard’s aggressive approaches to timber and agribusiness in Latin America are unique among universities. A recent report identified only one university endowment with direct holdings in forestry and agriculture investments in Latin America: Harvard.
A Letter to My Professors
I would like to appeal to my professors, peers, and anyone else who mentors women: Please don’t tell us to speak differently. If you truly respect us, let us speak as we like, and just pay attention to the words we say.
EdX, The Great Equalizer
But what does it mean that Harvard has sponsored an education platform to disseminate professors’ lectures across the world? Perhaps we should consider the philosophical foundations that have motivated President Faust and other university leaders to spread Harvard scholarship across the globe.
Harvard’s One Voice
What made the cheating scandal a “scandal” instead of simply a routine university response to academic dishonesty?
Go Forth To Serve
For those who actually want to make a difference, it’s important to think beyond simply finding a career labeled “public service” by the Office of Career Services.
The 'Cliffe Girl, 60 Years Later
Women have continued to be a bit of an afterthought at this institution, even after joint instruction and coeducation.
Forgetting Barry’s Corner
Harvard’s interactions with Allston have demonstrated that it does not respect its neighbors and its neighborhood.
Wherefore the UC?
Achieving student goals may require working with university administrations, but it may also require standing up to the administration when it doesn’t acquiesce to student demands.
Tel Aviv, a Transition
I’m walking in between sea and land, between day and night, between Arab and Jewish. But one thing here is not in transition: the Tel Aviv of today is decidedly not a socialist workers’ utopia.
The Illuminations of Birthright
From its name—“Birthright” implies that all Jews have the right to the land of Israel, while ignoring the Palestinian refugees who have been prevented from returning home for decades—to its itinerary—which includes ventures into the disputed Golan Heights, where participants gleefully take pictures of the ruined shells of “abandoned” Syrian homes—Birthright advances the political agenda of the Israeli and American right.
What Student Protest?
Before a journalist suggests, yet again, that Harvard students never put their feet on the ground about issues they care about, it’s important to point out the impressive nature of this school year’s student activism.
Working Toward a Solution
While we believe that there should be space on campus for discussion of a one-state solution, we are concerned about the inflammatory responses it has elicited from some in both the pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian communities.
What Anti-Semitism?
If American academics hope to contribute to productive discussion about Israel and Palestine on campuses, they must first cooperate and not issue unfounded accusations of racism.
Theory of Occupation
Members of Occupy Harvard and people at other Occupies have had philosophical discussions that center on what some consider a fundamental question of Occupy: Is it a protest or a community?
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