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Students at three universities went on strike this week to advocate for a variety of causes—including increasing curricular diversity, reducing student fees, and halting environmentally-unsound campus construction. Protests at Columbia University, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst echo events at Harvard last May, when members of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) fasted to influence university security guards’ contract negotiations. But while students across the country lobby for different changes and interests, most are met with little or slow change. According to the Daily...
...says VES professor John R. Stilgoe. “The primary focus of the department is visual, but environmental means everything people construct from clothing to cosmetics to a large landscape.”IN THE STUDY OR THE STUDIO Founded in 1968, VES is “the curricular home of studio arts, photography, filmmaking, film studies, environmental studies, video art and performance, and critical theory,” according to its description in the FAS student handbook. The concentration includes both academic study and studio courses ass part of its requirements. At its core, the concentration combines...
While he or she may set financial priorities, the Dean lacks the ability to dedicate funds to new or improved curricular and extracurricular programs. Unfortunately, the dean, like so many others throughout the University, is often forced into an advisory role and made to impose the decisions of playmakers above him. Though wording may be confusing, the College dean reports not the President, but to the Faculty dean, who then reports to the president on behalf of the dean of the College...
...folklore and mythology program, initiated discussions between various department chairs. Although these discussions were initially focused around the departure of then-President Summers, French professor Christie McDonald continued to organize this unofficial Caucus of Chairs, even after Summers stepped down. Their talks expanded into discussions of the curricular review and faculty growth. It would seem fitting for such discussions to occur within the faculty, but many of the chairs are dissatisfied with the University structure...
...average, the members of the Corporation graduated from college in 1963, 22 years before the drinking age was changed in 1985 and over a decade before the 1978 curricular review. None of them serve on visiting committees, have children at Harvard, or live in or near Boston. I am not implying that members of the Corporation are not knowledgeable about the issues facing Harvard, but it is hard to deny that acting on behalf of the University without having any direct connection to the issues or people in the community is a problematic task...