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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...will be closed during J-Term, but Hemenway Gym and the Quad Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) will stay open, according to Interim Dean of Advising Programs Inge-Lise Ameer...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: J-Term Acceptance Rate = 93.7% | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Theodore R. Sizer, former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and innovative educational reformer, died last week of colon cancer at his Harvard, Mass., home...

Author: By Jacob D. Roberts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ed. School Dean Passes Away | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Sizer, who was known as the “boy dean” on campus after being selected as Dean of the GSE at the age of 31, had to grapple with the societal upheaval of the 1960s during his term, including the Vietnam War and student riots, according to Patricia A. Graham, a professor of the history of American education and another former dean...

Author: By Jacob D. Roberts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ed. School Dean Passes Away | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

During the 1969 campus riots, Graham said Sizer served as a mediator between students and University administrators, because “he was the youngest dean, and administration thought that he could best relate to the rioters...

Author: By Jacob D. Roberts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ed. School Dean Passes Away | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Although Sizer had a “baptism under fire,” he had “the temperament to lead,” according to his close friend and former GSE Associate Dean Arthur G. Powell...

Author: By Jacob D. Roberts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ed. School Dean Passes Away | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

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