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Smith also announced that the Registrar’s office will undergo a thorough IT redesign in coming years to ensure the alignment of its technical capabilities with FAS’ academic offerings. The site does not currently have the capacity to cross-list courses, according to Smith...
...forget who exactly had thought the idea up, but I remember, after a brief and excited discussion, pinning a printout U.S. map to the wall, with a thin pencil line charting a bus route from East Coast to West. Going cross-country by Grey-hound, I thought, would be something: distance I could feel. More pressingly, my free moments were ticking away. Summers were starting to disappear, and in the not so distant future I’d have to get a job that, unless I became a teacher like my parents, would involve a sprinkled dribble of vacation days...
...other Harvard is the New Harvard. The New Harvard hopes to achieve unified schedules that make cross-registration between the College and graduateschools easy, to host J-term on campus, and to initiate a more relevant General Education program. The New Harvard aims to enrich the overall experience of the diverse group of undergraduates it recruits through a remarkable financial aid program...
...improve the current academic experience in this tough financial climate, Harvard should act on low-cost plans and tap into currently underutilized resources. For instance, the unified schedule was supposed to make cross-registration between the various graduate schools easier. Harvard should encourage this sort of activity with improved academic advising on cross-registration and expanded opportunities for it. Additionally, faculty hiring is frozen, and many professors are taking early retirement or have left for Washington. Thus, professors should be expected to teach more classes to soften the blow from lost courses, like the Economics Department’s junior...
...laconic, but her inner monologue is full of surprisingly acute observations. Moore gives Tassie an interest in the unsavory and a preoccupation with Sufism, extending Tassie’s savant-like eccentricities to ridiculous levels. Just when her confusion at the hypocrisies of people around her begins to cross the line between clever and insufferable, she’ll use her roommate’s vibrator to stir a glass of chocolate milk, or write a college paper about “The Plausible Sufic Geology of Stonehenge.” Tassie is at once herself, and a parody...