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...newly announced interim University President Derek C. Bok said that he will not impose his views on Harvard’s ongoing Curricular Review. However, in his latest work, “Our Underachieving Colleges,” he labors for 343 pages to spotlight his reforms for American universities...
...hopeful that the new advising system the College is to implement will receive more funding, more training, and greater support,” Chadbourne said.This year, 158 upperclassmen are assigned to freshmen entryways as prefects.The program is currently administered by the Freshman Dean’s Office. The Curricular Review’s Report on Advising and Counseling, released in December, calls for the institution of peer advisers that would “replace and augment the integration and introductory function performed by participants in such existing programs as the Prefect Program.”Chadbourne, who is the former...
...that Lewis, Kirby, Summers, and many others in the university administration have almost departed, and as the curricular review moves (hopefully) towards implementation, the College would be well served by taking a hard look at its attitude toward extracurricular activities. Efforts to remove extracurriculars from academia, experience shows, are non-starters; a far more achievable and positive goal would be to put a little more of academia into extracurriculars. Rather than seeing the two as oppositional, with X hours going to one or the other, we should encourage the many ways in which they can be complementary...
Throughout the course of the curricular review and the brouhaha around Summers’ resignation, we’ve been constantly reminded of the dearth of student-faculty interaction on this campus. While solving this problem in the purely academic sphere is daunting given our institution’s extensive inertia, far fewer hurdles stand in the way of making progress on this divide through the extracurricular route...
...have the formidable task of setting Harvard back on course, and lessons from posterity cannot but help. Our next president must smooth over the difficulties that plagued Summers and marshal the full support of the Faculty for projects such as bringing to a conclusion and implementing the Harvard College Curricular Review and forging ahead with the Allston Expansion which will define the Harvard experience for decades. Without full and honest disclosure from the Faculty of why this presidency was unsuitable, his successor may well founder on the same rocks Summers...