Word: advisor
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...governing body—together with the OIP’s director, Jane Edwards, who could not be reached for comment yesterday evening.MATERNITY LEAVE CHANGESAt the same meeting, Dillon Professor of International Affairs Lisa L. Martin, who last July became the first Faculty of Arts and Sciences diversity advisor, solicited the Council’s views in advance of possible changes to the Faculty’s maternity leave policy.While Martin yesterday called Harvard’s current policy of offering all primary caregivers one semester’s teaching relief “relatively generous...
...lame duck?he has repeatedly said he will not try to extend his term when it expires next September?and last September's election proved that Koizumi's support is broad enough to risk alienating influential domestic constituencies in the name of better international relations. A close Koizumi advisor, who asked not to be identified, claims to be baffled by the visits, considering the political damage they are doing. Only Koizumi knows why he does what he does. Indeed, Hitoshi Tanaka, a former Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister under Koizumi, says that the most striking aspect of the Prime Minister...
...Cramer is a study in contradictions. He learned from liberal thinkers and protested against Nixon in college, but says he loved working with his thesis advisor, former Shattuck Professor of Urban Government Edward Banfield, whom he calls “reactionary” and who was later memorialized by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, former Harvard and current Pepperdine University Professor James Q. Wilson, and Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington. Cramer calls himself a McCain Democrat and says that money won’t make you happy—that it?...
Malick graduated Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Rhodes Scholarship. He spent several years at Oxford’s Magdalen College, but dropped out after a clash with his advisor over the contrasting worldviews of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein...
...Searching for some cure-all solution, some have called for a stipulation requiring all faculty members to participate in the advising, but such a plan is impractical and even counterproductive. The quality of the student advising program doesn’t depend on the amount of Nobel Prizes that advisors have won; rather, it depends on all advisors having a thorough grasp of the College’s academic requirements and procedures—as well as actual interest in providing guidance to often-overwhelmed Harvard undergrads. As long as this requirement is met, it matters little who does...