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...need the “uplifting” leadership style and intellectual breadth that characterizes Venky. “In any new dean, I should look for the highest scientific standards, collaborativeness, and good humor,” Knowles said. “And the ability to encourage our alumni and alumnae to look ahead with Harvard as the footprint of engineering and the applied sciences grows.”—Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...says. HARVARDWOOD HELPSThough such opportunities are not available for ever artform, those students interested in the entertainment arts have taken matters into their own hands by creating an extracurricular network all their own. Founded in 1999, Harvardwood is a non-profit organization that creates connections between Harvard alumni and established members of the entertainment business. According to Harvardwood founder and president Mia E. Riverton ’99, one of the network’s goals is to find summer internships for students. “They become a part of our organization and participate in other activities...
...other things that are vital to the education of students. When restructuring a school in need of improvement, tutoring programs, after school programs, strong extracurriculars should also be required on top of the new classrooms and the new administrators. One valuable resource that is untapped by secondary schools is alumni. Each school should be pressured to have an alumni registrar. Alumni should be encourage to stay involved in these struggling schools by joining a parents board, by teaching, by giving speeches, or through volunteering. If kids aren’t focused in school because they feel that they have...
...Even with a steady influx of new members, smaller magazines can face dissolution for reasons beyond human factors. All of them have in recent history dealt with difficulties threatening their livelihood. Most small publications don’t have rich alumni, making it difficult to solve financial dilemmas such as: from where do we get money? And, later on: from where do we get more money...
...social life. “We had a more theoretical discussion about the college and what it means to go here,” UC President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 said. The Board of Overseers, which comprises 30 graduates of the University elected by their fellow alumni, is Harvard’s secondary governing board. The seven-member Harvard Corporation makes most of the school’s key decisions, such as setting the University’s budget. At the hour-long talk, students first presented several issues they wanted to address, but the meeting quickly...