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...Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier said that upon taking the helm of the school in July 2007, he adopted the view, widely held at SEAS, that bioengineering needed to be developed at Harvard. The Medical School released slew of committee reports this summer—the most detailed and substantial of which called for the creation of a University-wide bioengineering initiative, concluding the first phase of the strategic planning process launched last October...
...Though the report, commissioned by Flier and former SEAS Dean Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, is by no means a final plan, Flier said that the proposed ideas seem to be “very, very reasonable” and that implementation will likely follow the appointment of a permanent dean of SEAS and approval from the University...
...Implementation of a bioengineering curriculum as per the ambitious time-table is contingent on whether a permanent dean of SEAS is appointed. Hyman said that the new dean should have an instrumental role in developing the curriculum and “a sense of ownership...
...Dean of Admissions for Harvard College William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 surprised many in the academic community in September when he suggested that there may be a time in the near future when the SAT—which is currently required of all Harvard applicants—would cease to be an essential part of the application. Ditching the SAT has become trendy in recent years, as prestigious colleges like Bowdoin and Mt. Holyoke have joined middle-of-the-road schools like Pitzer and Hamilton in going SAT-optional...
...Fitzsimmons’ comments came as the esteemed dean led a committee of the National Association for College Admission Counseling in examining the usefulness of admissions tests such as the SAT. According to Fitzsimmons, the SAT is no longer a good predictor of performance in college. But aside from the question of whether the SAT is an effective predictor, the SAT-optional trend is at least due in part to a favorite claim of social justice types: that the SAT discriminates against students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. For proponents of this claim, such a statement from the venerable Fitzsimmons...