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Administration officials announced yesterday that the College will not be offering any “January Term” programs next year, a revelation that comes nearly two years after Harvard first decided to alter the College calendar to include a “J-Term.” Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds said that the financial situation has forced the College to abort its previous plans to offer programming for the “January Experience”—as it has come to be known. Planning for the period was in its early...
...advising survey, the Advising Programs Office reported at a presentation to the Undergraduate Council yesterday. More than 90 percent of sophomores are satisfied with their House advising, and between 80 and 90 percent of freshmen found their Peer Advising Fellows helpful and accessible, according to a statement by Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere after yesterday’s meeting. The survey, which solicited student opinion on the freshmen advising program, the Peer Advising Fellows program, and the sophomore advising program, has served as a check-up of sorts for the Advising Programs Office since its inception...
...despite the silence, administrators are not working without any planning assumptions, according to Engineering Professor Frederick H. Abernathy, who said that FAS Dean for Administration and Finance Brett C. Sweet has acknowledged an expectation that 14 percent of eligible staffers would take the package...
When I opened Monday’s email from Dean Michael D. Smith and Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, entitled “January Experience Announcement,” I breathed a deep sigh of relief. The College, at least this year, has decided not to offer any classes or organized internships during the new five-week stretch, instead allowing students to plan their own breaks. Harvard students will finally get that long January vacation that their friends at other colleges have always taunted them with...
...professional duties are to Harvard, and that outside professional activities will not conflict with obligations to one’s students, to colleagues, and to the University as a whole.” Though paid consulting for other educational institutions requires permission from the faculty member’s Dean and the Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—customary professional service “generally poses no serious conflicts and may be undertaken without prior approval.”But as a guideline, “no more than 20 per cent...