Word: adaptive
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True to Harvard's decentralized nature, the University did not wait for Rudenstine to speak out on the potential of technology. Instead of the centralized effort now underway to revolutionize Harvard's administrative uses of information technology (Project ADAPT), advances in academic information technology at Harvard have come about from the bottom up within the schools...
These funds are designed to create University-wide professorships and cross-disciplinary initiatives, as well as to aid administrative efforts like Project ADAPT, which was created to revolutionize the way the University collects financial data. Some of the money will also serve as presidential discretionary funds to help lagging projects...
Some of Rudenstine's attempts at coordination--the litany of new meetings required between schools, University-wide financial reforms and the planning of Project ADAPT--have created a bureaucracy that stifles change, critics charge...
...been present, complained about Blanchard's poor taste. Three days after the dinner, Stillman called Blanchard to express formally the academy's displeasure. Within hours, Blanchard faxed a letter of apology to the academy, where he taught political science from 1977 to 1981. "Us old sea dogs need to adapt," he conceded, "and change the way we have always done things." With the letter, Blanchard and Stillman thought the subject was closed...
...thoroughly collegiate on March 1. I woke at the ripe hour of 10:30 a.m. and immediately went to check my e-mail. At home I was a fervent anti-technocrat, but I have had to adapt-here at college, checking your e-mail is more important than that first cup of coffee. After trekking to Rubin's Deli in Brookline for lunch with a friend, I returned to Harvardland to finish up my work before the much-anticipated Freshman Formal that night. I checked my mail in the monstrosity we call a Science Center, and then...