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...four or five geographic areas, or up to 1,500 folders, McGrath, the director of admissions, explains. “It’s a process of gathering widely and sort of winnowing as comparisons occur over a ten week process,” she says.The area subcommittee chair advocates for the applicant, “as if he were at a trial and he were the student’s attorney, in a sense,” says Fitzsimmons, the dean of admissions. In the more widely-known part of the process, admissions officers create a reader sheet...
...African safari, a trip funded by the money she received from winning the Faculty of Arts and Sciences administrators’ prize last year. The award gives recipients a $7,100 stipend and a month of paid leave in which to use it. Kidd will also serve as a chair of the Board of Directors of the Brookline Community Foundation. Kidd said she hopes to find a way to continue working with college students, though she is leaving her options open at the moment. “I’m trying not to get myself too committed...
...students say more needs to be done.But while students have sought changes to promote the school’s mission of public services, they say administrators have not taken the issue seriously.“I think good intentions are there,” says Alicia S. Kaskela, co-chair of the Student Public Service Collaborative. “But I don’t think they’ve really been borne out in practice.”‘ZERO COMMUNICATION’While students say they believe the Kennedy School, and especially its current dean, David...
Children’s literature leaves a profound mark early in mental and social development and appeals strongly to adults’ “damaged sense of wonder,” said folklore and mythology department chair Maria Tatar to a packed crowd at Brattle Theater last night...
...tactics” at the panel. “We’re trying to foster really respectful relationships between people, whether it’s for one night or whether it’s for years,” Bolm said. Harvard College Queer Students and Allies Co-Chair Marco Chan ’11 attended both the student group panel and a second panel exclusively devoted to queer issues. The smaller queer life event yesterday afternoon included student and staff panelists who emphasized the size of Harvard’s queer community and the school?...