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That’s because Harvard is the people who constitute it. Years of clamoring for a better advising system, a real curricular review, a Pub, a student center, a 24-hour library, campus-wide concerts, and a host of other amenities—that was my job, after all, on the Crimson’s editorial board—masked an unassailable, deep satisfaction with the people that surrounded me. That will always be Harvard’s winning chip, and this week, it upped the ante...
Kagan had managed to push through a major curricular review and enjoyed significant popularity among students and faculty during her three years as dean, but committee members thought her management style might come to echo the brashness of the Summers era, the two sources said. She was also perceived as lacking the intellectual breadth and depth that would be needed to earn her the respect of humanists and scientists alike in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, according to the sources...
...dinner this May given in honor of 15 professors who helped guide the curricular review, Interim Dean of the Faculty David R. Pilbeam—who stepped in for Knowles in April as the dean struggled with complications related to the cancer—presented the president with a t-shirt. The back of the shirt read, “BOK,” the front, “168-14-11,” the tally of the Faculty’s votes on the new program of general education...
...Since its launch, the review of undergraduate education had stalled, suffering from an overabundance of administrators and professorial personalities. Two years earlier, Summers resigned from the committee shaping the College’s curricular review, following a vote of no confidence in his leadership...
...schedule—two four-month semesters, with a one-month “J-term” in between. But in the last two years of Summers’ tenure, the conversation on calendar reform stalled as FAS tackled general education legislation. Just before the curricular review came to completion this spring, the UC released a 10,000 word position paper documenting their proposed calendar changes. A UC-sponsored undergraduate referendum on calendar reform followed, in which 84 percent of the 3,467 students who participated voted in favor of the Council’s proposal. The UC plan...