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...Historical Study A-88: “The British Empire”—hail from different Core Curriculum categories, they will share the same home under the new Gen Ed program. Although Societies of the World is expansive enough to house courses in both literature and history, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris said the category will likely place more emphasis on the social sciences. “We don’t see this [category] as predominantly culture, religion, philosophy, but mostly the world of social science, although these are not mutually exclusive, of course...
From a podium atop the stage of Sanders Theatre, Dean of the College, Evelynn M. Hammonds jokingly greeted her audience as a class—yet the seats were filled not with students but with parents visiting for Freshman Parents’ Weekend. In her welcome remarks on Friday, Hammonds paralleled her first year as dean with the novel experiences of being a freshman. A primary focus of her address was increasing faculty-student involvement. “Working with an esteemed scholar is the type of learning we ought to be facilitating,” Hammonds said. Within this...
...between academic, extracurricular, and social life formed the common thread running through many of the weekend’s activities and served as the basis for the panel discussion “The Freshman Year: Now and the Months Ahead.” As moderator of the discussion, Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 said he was “wowed” by the “intelligence, drive, and good-naturedness” of the Class of 2012. With 200 of its 1,660 members admitted off the wait list, Dean Dingman said there...
...some housing-market economists question the wisdom of the idea. They say helping people who may buy houses in the future is not how the government should be providing assistance. "I can't imagine why you would want to do this," says Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a Washington think tank. "What you should be doing is helping homeowners who are already over their head." (Read "Four Steps to Ending the Foreclosure Crisis...
...from the Legal Services Center by the Law School’s information technology service. It was supposed to be taken to the HLS campus where it would be backed up, according to Robert L. J. London ’79, the Law School’s acting assistant dean for communications...