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Harvard students complain about a lot of things. But one of our grievances deserves to be addressed immediately: The Administrative Board (Ad Board), the organization that metes out punishment when students break the rules, is an opaque institution that operates according to highly unjust principles, and it should be reformed...
...criticism is that resident deans are simultaneously responsible for bringing the case to the Ad Board, investigating it, representing the student, and presenting the case against him or her. Are they friends or prosecutors? The only people present on the students’ behalf (the students are not) are faculty advocates enlisted by students, yet even they are not allowed to speak at the hearing...
...occasion, the Ad Board will rely on the secret testimony of other students when “serving” justice, yet the accused is never allowed to hear this testimony or see a transcript. In fact, transcripts aren’t even kept. This might be acceptable practice at Guantanamo Bay, but you won’t find it at Yale, Stanford...
...with the senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, James R. Houghton ’58, was a subplot to the unraveling of the Summers presidency. Knowles was a close friend of Houghton, whose family endowed his professorship in chemistry. After stepping down as dean in 2002, Knowles joined the board of his company, Corning Inc., a glass and fiber-optics maker in upstate New York, where he served until April...
Many college presidents at small and mid-size schools are dissatisfied with their board members’ participation in fundraising efforts, according to a survey released last week. The study, conducted by the Council of Independent Colleges and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, revealed that just 1 percent of college leaders polled feel their board members are sufficiently well-versed in the basics of fundraising. A previous survey from 1997-1998 concluded that 13 percent of trustees were considered to have the necessary knowledge. The survey respondents included 274 small or medium-sized independent schools?...