The Harvard Crimson

How Intellectual Vitality Became Vital to Harvard

Three years ago, almost no Harvard students had heard of “intellectual vitality.” Now, they can’t escape it. Even Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana, the loudest champion of intellectual vitality in ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard College Debuts Intellectual Vitality Initiative After 3 Years of Talks

After nearly three years of quiet meetings, Harvard College’s Intellectual Vitality Initiative has finally gone public. The initiative, spearheaded by College Dean Rakesh Khurana and a committee of ...
The Stanford Daily

The myth of intellectual vitality? On housing and culture at Stanford and Oxford

I saw an Onion headline a while back, “Malala Can Tell Oxford Paired Her With Roommate Just Because They’re Both Nobel Laureates” that first made me laugh and then made me really think. The joke, of ...
The Stanford Daily

Intellectual commerciality over intellectual vitality

In the 1885 Stanford University Founding Grant, Leland Stanford and Jane Lathrop Stanford put forth their fundamental principles for the university and its students. In describing the overarching ...