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...According to Smith, Mitchell has already started his duties as assistant dean for diversity relations and communications—a post that had been in the works for “several months.” But Mitchell said in an interview yesterday that he has yet to comprehensively draft his goals as diversity dean, emphasizing his desire to meet with key individuals first. “It’s not a position that does programs,” said Mitchell, who serves as co-chair of the Harvard Association of Black Faculty, Administrators and Fellows...
That guideline was pulled from the electronic version of the student handbook last week, and the four students present at yesterday’s meeting plan to draft a revised version of the guideline within the next week...
...warmer world are still fuzzy - and the climate devil will be in those details. Yet new updates on climate science come out only intermittently - the IPCC goes five or six years between releasing its massive assessments. That's far too infrequent for policymakers - especially as the world attempts to draft a successor to the Kyoto Protocol at the upcoming Copenhagen climate summit in December. "We all collectively have to share information about climate change in a way that will better inform ongoing decisions that people need to make," says Jane Lubchenco, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
...September, the DPJ will take over as the official ruling party, with the Diet's election of Hatoyama as Prime Minister and the appointment of ministers. That leaves 100 days for the new administration to draft a budget for the next fiscal year that doesn't increase the national deficit - now at 180% of GDP - but still holds to its costly election-year pledges. If the national budget is not prepared by the end of the year, the green shoots of economic growth could...
...fantasy craze has even crept into our educational system. Dan Flockhart, a former middle-school math teacher in California, designed a fantasy-based curriculum that thousands of teachers are using in their classrooms. His workbook, Fantasy Football and Mathematics, encourages students to draft teams and compute points according to formulas that incorporate basic math concepts like decimals, fractions and negative integers. But before you conclude that this trend is the final sign that American education is doomed, know this: fantasy math may be working. According to preliminary research by the University of Mississippi, most teachers who use Flockhart's program...