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...landmark report by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development that sounded the alarm on the sorry state of pedagogy at Harvard. Just as importantly, the report identified the problem as stemming from Harvard’s institutional priorities and culture and recommended 18 concrete changes to begin to fix the problem. Three of these changes—monetary incentives for top-notch teaching, the creation of a culture of peer evaluation, and making course evaluations mandatory—are particularly important. Beyond those changes, we hope that teaching is made a more important part of tenure decisions...
...ready to go out into the world,” he said, “not just to be successful in your chosen fields, but to be leaders in business and in your communities,” he said. In a rhythmic plea, Chenault encouraged the graduates to begin rebuilding the tarnished reputation of business, identifying this task as the “overarching challenge” of the coming years.“You can be the generation that takes us beyond defending business, beyond deflecting assaults on our integrity, beyond treating the self-inflicted wounds of the past...
...year, was approved yesterday by Harvard’s top governing board, the Harvard Corporation, following Bok’s recommendation. It will be modeled on a proposal—initially advanced by a committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53—to begin classes shortly after Labor Day, to move fall exams before winter break, and to end the academic year...
...planned University-wide capital campaign was put on hold during the turmoil of the Summers presidency. Faust now appears poised to jump-start the fundraising drive, and administrators say that filling the deanship vacancies is a necessary step to begin the academic planning for the campaign...
...became good friends,” Lilly says. Scarry “has single-handedly made my Harvard experience spectacular,” says Lilly. Lilly, a neurobiology concentrator, will attend Harvard Medical School in the fall, while Scarry, a Social Studies concentrator, will begin a doctoral program in political science at the University of Chicago. This is the first separation for the pair, who both lived in Mather House after their stint in Grays. Lilly describes the change as “really sad” but says “we’ll be visiting each other...