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...enjoy the trust of the faculty,” Ryan said. Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who is also a council member, said that the group discussed the challenges an incoming dean might face. In an interview, Ryan cited the Allston expansion and the curricular review as two of the biggest issues facing the next FAS dean. Ryan said Faust had asked for suggestions of individual candidates in an earlier e-mail. Yesterday’s meeting was intended to solicit input prior to the submission of those suggestions, Ryan said. Administrators, including interim FAS Dean...
...revolutionary when Bok took the reigns again in July, he still had plenty of cleaning up to do to smooth relations with groups of professors, alumni, and students who were disaffected after the forced removal of a president. In Bok, the University found a shepherd to guide a prolonged curricular review, oversee a major campus expansion into Allston, and launch dean searches for three of Harvard’s faculties.As his encore at Harvard’s helm—and with it, his career—comes to a close, Bok said yesterday his priorities for the year have...
...Derek C. Bok, in his first turn as president, likened the 1978 curricular review to “moving a cemetery.” His most recent book, “Our Underachieving Colleges,” assails the “self-interested behavior” of professors as the most significant barrier to reform in higher education...
Clarification: The March 15 news analysis "With Book on Horizon, Summers Sharpens His Critiques of Harvard and its Faculty" did not completely represent the former University president's views on the undergraduate curricular review. He also said in an interview after the speech, "Much of it reflects things that were my focus during my presidency," and praised half a dozen initiatives, including faculty-student contact, the empirical reasoning requirement, the attention to pedagogy, secondary concentrations, and the emphasis on actual knowledge rather than ways of knowing...
...teaching. Although this increase still falls short of the average pay of most specialists and surgeons, it is an important step in creating financial incentives for teaching. The success of this initiative is especially important for HMS because of its recently introduced—and much heralded—curricular reforms. Unlike nearly all other medical school programs, HMS students now spend their third year in a single hospital rather than rotating through several institutions. The reforms, designed to improve student relationships with patients and doctors, are simply untenable without expanded faculty involvement. Not surprisingly, the initial results of this...