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...With talks beginning as early as last year, Stanford Law School Dean Larry D. Kramer said in a telephone interview Friday that the reforms were driven by growing faculty and student discontent over the existing grading system. “We had created a false sense of precision and drew distinctions among students that weren’t really valid,” he said. “The biggest desire was that we wanted people to pick classes based on what they wanted to learn and not on grades.” The decision—which was made...
...certain, perhaps laudable, creativity in making enemies among the faculty (for after all he wanted to reform things), but those he offended the most were the feminists (male as well as female). They detected his opposition, then revealed it, crushed it, and installed one of their own, University President Drew G. Faust, to replace him as President. Here was a display of dominance rarely seen at Harvard, which usually prefers to veil its changes of regime. How it happened is not yet clear, but that it happened is obvious...
...point is not that the University neglects its undergraduates wholesale. It does not. President Drew G. Faust’s remarks to graduating seniors at Tuesday’s Baccalaureate service suggested, for instance, a deep personal attachment to the College and its students, and this is exciting, indeed. The issue is not that individual University leaders are prejudiced against the College, but rather that the system itself crushes undergraduates under a blubbering mass of bureaucratic...
...2/11/07: Drew G. Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, is appointed the 28th president of Harvard. She is the first woman to hold the position...
...While a University-wide planning committee for science has had some notable successes, for example, University President Drew G. Faust’s plans for a second committee to examine the social sciences have already hit a snag. Though she originally planned to announce the committee by January, no announcement has been forthcoming, and Hyman has said that even once the committee is formed, it will be only a “relatively small first committee to plan for a plan...