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...that the finance post and Harvard’s presidency will be filled by interim appointees. Mora will temporarily vacate her current position as the University’s associate vice president for sponsored programs, in which she has helped oversee regulations for funding research endeavors such as the Broad Institute, the genomics collaboration between Harvard and MIT. Mora will return to her old job once Harvard finishes its search for a long-term successor to Berman. Berman announced in September that she would step down from her position as finance VP at the end of this March to spend...
...Prefect Program. Freshmen would benefit invaluably from the kind of honest and practical advice upperclassmen can provide. Peer advisors could tell freshmen which Core has a lighter workload and which professor just reads from a script in lecture. Moreover, first-year students should be assigned an advisor in a broad field like social sciences, sciences, or humanities. When they enter the College, freshmen would indicate which general area they are interested in so that they would be assigned an upperclass advisor with a greater familiarity with concentrations and classes in that area. Such a system would help first-years better...
...This political offsite will be similar to the U.S.-sponsored London conference in December 2002, which brought together the then-exiled leaders of Iraq's opposition parties for four days of grueling negotiations that resulted in the acceptance of a broad political agenda for a post-Saddam Iraq. But agreements on some fundamental concepts - like the creation of a federal state with strong regional governments, rather than a powerful central government - unraveled when the opposition groups gained political power after the fall of Saddam...
...Learning.” By the 19th century, Harvard was undergoing a liberalization of its religious ideas under the influence of the Unitarians, who had come to control Harvard and institutionalized a greater emphasis on reason, morality, humanism, and intellectual freedom. “Unitarianism is a much more broad-based, hospitable religion, at odds with the old Calvinists,” says Gomes. “[The movement] led the way to what eventually became a secularizing process.”Gomes says the sea change came in 1869 with the inauguration of University President Charles W. Eliot...
...commit a composite $20.5 million of their own money to the program. The foundation said its ultimate goal is to have the success of the eight colleges act as a model for other selective schools to increase their enrollment of transfer students from community colleges. “With broad dissemination of the success these schools have had, other colleges and universities will create similar programs that serve thousands more students in the future,” said Joshua Wyner, Vice President of Programs at the foundation. The schools and the foundation see this program as necessary because only...