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...last month, Faust mentioned interdisciplinary integration in the sciences as one of the most important strokes in her sketch of the academic year to come. Fortunately, Faust has recognized that there is no reason to limit departmental integration to the sciences. As Malkin Professor of Public Policy and former dean of the Kennedy School of Government Robert D. Putnam told The Crimson, Harvard “underplays its assets in the social sciences because of the divisions across the schools and across departments.” Just as physicists or chemists can benefit from shared labs and research...
...College has ended the Undergraduate Council program that disburses thousands of dollars every week to pay for campus parties. In a sharply worded open letter to four UC representatives, Interim Dean of the College David Pilbeam chastised the council for insufficiently regulating the parties and urged it to refocus on funding student groups...
...Leadership, Excellence, Integrity,” and the years of the Business School’s existence, “1908-2008,” are inscribed on its surface. “The new bell...will have special significance for this community,” Business School Dean Jay O. Light said. Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck detailed the history of the bells’ presence at Harvard and the prolonged efforts to return them to their original home. “Though we had been stewards, in a sense, of these bells for seven decades, we realized...
...last year, out of a total of about 6,600 undergraduates. The rise in aid for what the College calls middle-income families reflects a concern that Harvard is doing better at attracting students from the extremes of the financial spectrum than it is at attracting those in between. Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in an interview yesterday that promising middle-income students are increasingly foregoing applications to the Ivy League in lieu of prestigious in-state schools that provide competitive tuition. “There’s a prevailing misconception that there...
Last spring it seemed that the College was finally ready to reevaluate the Administrative Board of Harvard College, the archaic body of about 30 administrators that serves as the College’s primary disciplinary arm. This fall, we were told, a committee named by then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71would reevaluate the entire system, with a particular eye toward the lack of student representation on the Board. We had hoped that this reevaluation would fix the lack of due process in Harvard’s disciplinary system. But this summer, Gross abruptly resigned...