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Less than three months after leaving Harvard for Washington, U.S. Solicitor General and former Law School dean Elena Kagan will return to Cambridge as the Law School’s 2009 Class Day speaker. Kagan, who served as the Law School’s dean until confirmed as a member of President Barack Obama’s administration last month, was selected by this year’s Class Marshals to address the Law School’s graduating J.D. students on June 3. “It was an obvious choice for us,” said Class Marshal...
...nature of freshman advising is such that some students may end up with an adviser who is directly involved in the implementation of Gen Ed—Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris was on the board of freshman advisers last year—while others may be assigned first-year graduate students at one of Harvard’s other schools...
...They’ve just recently approved a ton of new courses, which is great. They were originally concerned about not having enough courses,” said Robert G. Doyle, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who is also a freshman academic advisor. “But I think the program received a lot of course recommendations just before the deadline because professors are just like students—always finishing at the last minute...
Clarifying the Law School’s move to a pass/fail grading system last October, Acting Dean of Harvard Law School Howell E. Jackson announced in an e-mail to students late last week that the school will make its grade distribution public and change the criteria for awarding coveted Latin honors...
Since the departure of former Law School Dean Elena Kagan for the Obama Administration, the school has moved forward with its grading reforms under Jackson, the acting dean...