Word: deans
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...Administrative Board, often seen as a monolithic, stolid body, may see revisions to its policies and proceedings in the near future.Procedures regarding representation in Ad Board cases, the size of hearings, and the threshold for punishment, are often decried by students as either opaque or overly harsh. But Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds indicated that policy in these areas will be reworked in her presentation at this year’s final meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Other issues, such as the question of whether students will play a role in the disciplinary process...
...have met with Dean Michael D. Smith of FAS, Dean Allan M. Brandt of GSAS, Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds of Harvard College. None of them bargained for this crisis when they came on board. Neither did President Drew G. Faust. “Harvard is not invulnerable to the seismic financial shocks in the larger world,” she told us in a letter this fall. “Our own economic landscape has been significantly altered.” We would all need to navigate between these seemingly incompatible goals: the need “to advance...
...November, Dean Smith explained at an FAS faculty meeting about the “three buckets” and the need to set priorities in everything we do. In the first and smallest bucket go our highest priorities, those things so important we might need to increase spending on them. In the second medium-sized bucket go things central to the core mission of FAS that cannot be reduced. In the third and largest bucket is everything else, and much of it will have...
...experience at Harvard. Houses at Harvard are far more than just buildings. They are the locus where teaching, learning, advising and vibrant community all intersect.” I couldn’t agree more. And when the comprehensive Report on Harvard House Renewal was released in April 2009, Dean Hammonds affirmed the importance of the Houses as “essential, not ancillary, to a Harvard education.” Almost simultaneously, however, deep financial cuts to the Houses were proposed...
...media. No student, professor, or campus organization I know of openly supported a particular candidate, even though many had private opinions they would readily share. (I was barred from expressing my opinion as a reporter covering the search, so I will do so now: I favored Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan or Howard Hughes Medical Institute chief Thomas R. Cech, a Nobel laureate in biology...