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...will provide further administrative structure to the interdisciplinary initiative. They will be essential to advancing cross-disciplinary work, as they will be able to more effectively recruit specialized faculty, develop interdisciplinary programs, and request funding for equipment and lab space to conduct research in their respective fields.As University-wide departments??€”which do not currently exist—these new units will further facilitate communication and collaboration among faculty from different schools. Provost Steven E. Hyman, who worked closely with the UPCSE and whose name is on the short list in the search for Harvard’s next...
Unlike Harvard’s decentralized system of faculty governance, in which the professional schools and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meet and make decisions separately from one another, Stanford’s Faculty Council—which awards degrees, creates concentrations, and approves new departments??€”is made up of elected members from the University’s graduate and professional schools, as well as its School of Humanities and Sciences and School of Engineering...
...current structure for hiring new faculty is largely to blame. Departments play a major role in selecting candidates for tenure, and only departments??€”not interdisciplinary committees like social studies—can hire permanent faculty. This leads to two problems. First, departments often select professors with similar specialties. This leads to concentrations of outstanding professors in some subspecialties, who in turn attract other top scholars and top graduate students. While such a strategy can be beneficial for developing fledgling departments and groups of experts on key topics, it has the potential to leave tremendous voids in which Harvard...
...course change almost every year, and many junior professors are only around for two years. This means that the CUE guide is often completely unhelpful, as a new professor means a new syllabus and often a different textbook for the same course. Tutorials—seminars in most other departments??€”are taught by grad students in their area of research. As such, they have a high student-teacher ratio, high grading curve, and even higher esoterica index. Hardly Social Studies 10. However, economics, philosophy, and quantum mechanics classes all count toward the mathematics concentration, and writing a good...
...professor of chemistry, synthesized reserpine, an important drug in the treatment of mental disorders. One day later, the student council proposes a new student activity center.6/1: Dean of Freshmen bans the freshman smoker. 73 percent of freshman have poor teeth, according to James M. Duning, director of the hygiene departments??€™ dental health service...