June 1, 2007

Harvard, Be Honest

By LEONARD CASSUTO

Dear Harvard: It was with eager anticipation that I opened your recently released task-force report, "A Compact to Enhance Teaching and Learning at Harvard," on the charged topic of the role of teaching in the research university. As a graduate-school alumnus, I had high hopes.

But I confess that I am disappointed. You say that you must value teaching more, and you speak of the need to "make choices" to achieve that goal. Yet you refuse to acknowledge the most important choice. In

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