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...transferred from a school with 16,000 undergraduates, was often closed out of classes required for my major three times in a row, and the term advisor wasn’t really a part of the UCLA vocabulary, I am quite happy with a concentration advisor and an Allston Burr Senior Tutor— not to mention the 15 other tutors in the House there to offer help. A friend of mine once complained that picking classes himself was too difficult and that there should be someone there to tell him what to do. After almost choking to death from...
...meeting, professors raised concerns that their departments were taking a back seat to Allston planning and undergraduate services, while others questioned the wisdom of devoting so many resources to gender diversity rather than the Faculty as a whole...
Previous plans for the campaign, described by administrators over the past two years, called for an emphasis on academic programs across the University, while leaving direct fundraising for Allston to a later campaign. But as other selling points, including the College’s much-hyped Curricular Review, have failed to inspire donors, Allston has become the University’s best sales pitch...
...Allston has the ability to really motivate alumni to give,” said a major alumni donor who has been closely involved with plans for the campaign. “Everything else is weak right now. You can’t ask people to donate their money to a Curricular Review that barely even exists...
Harvard is also considering pushing back the public rollout of the capital campaign so that the University’s expansion into Allston can figure more prominently into its fundraising efforts. Please see related story, page...