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The School of Public Health is also exploring collaborating with Harvard Medical School to share working spaces until financial resources can support any expansionary plans, according to David J. Hunter, the School of Public Health’s dean for academic affairs.
For example, a material science professor has led a wine-tasting seminar during IAP for over 30 years, according to MIT Associate Dean of Academic and Research Initiatives Michael Bergren.
“[MIT] felt it was worthwhile to give both students and faculty the opportunity to step outside the fairly rigorous demands of the academic year and do something that is a little off the beaten track,” Bergren says.
Many student group leaders say they appreciate the freedom to manage their own academic programming while knowing that the OSL and its resources are available as support if necessary.
In the most competitive year for humanities graduate students entering the field of academia since the Modern Language Association began tracking academic job trends 35 years ago, some administrators maintain that students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are an anomaly to the grim national picture.