Contact
Email: prodigalcrimson@substack.com
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If you’re a free subscriber, you’ll get public posts. If you’re a paid subscriber, you can email me to ask questions, and I’ll do my best to answer them. You’ll also get event invites, and any other extra research that I produce, but don’t circulate publicly.
I’ve also turned on paid subscriptions to give this project the market test: if Harvard alumni won’t pay for it, that’s a good signal that I need a new approach.
About
See the introductory post for more.
If you want to understand how Harvard works, its history, and your abilities as alumni to change it for the better, come along. You’ll:
Learn how Harvard works at a sustainable pace.
Learn Harvard’s history (and the history of higher education), which is operationally relevant today.
Find the others.
Learn what you can do together.
And you’ll know how to do these things before too long:
Draw a basic, but robust, chart of Harvard’s governance structure.
Distinguish between the provost, deans, fellows, etc.
Answer the question “What is the law?” with regard to Harvard.
Populate a timeline with principal dates in Harvard’s history.
Name current actors, their positions, and their significance, within Harvard.
And more!
And later this year, I will be teaching a class on Harvard’s history and governance in New York City. I’ll announce it here.
Who am I?
Hello, my name is Daniel Golliher (gol-yer). I grew up on a farm in Indiana, and I graduated from Harvard College in 2014 with a degree in government. My undergraduate experience was a mixed bag, and I have many critiques of Harvard—the prestige poisoning some of its graduates have, and the broken state of its government degree—but I would do it all over again without question.
I worked for Harvard Recreation as an undergrad and for a year after I graduated, and if you went to the MAC or Hemenway, there’s a good chance you saw me behind the desk or cleaning a piece of equipment. If you have one of those “Be Crimson” CamelBak water bottles—I made those! They were from my additional, and final, 1.25 years at Harvard Rec, before I moved to New York City, my now forever-home.
Currently, I am the founder of a civics school called Maximum New York. You can also read more about me on my personal site, or find me on Twitter or LinkedIn.
Motto
“Veritas Vult”
The Truth wills it
