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...While President-elect Drew G. Faust has yet to set a path for how Harvard will globalize in the future, she wrote in an e-mailed statement that the internationalization of Harvard is an “important priority,” to which she has directed a “good deal of attention” this spring...
Over the past year, a committee of professors has met regularly to review the University’s tech transfer policies and systematically compare them to peer institutions. That committee recently presented its recommendations to Provost Hyman and President-elect Drew G. Faust...
...These Commencement exercises are the largest single gathering of Harvard alumni each year. (Well, depending on the attendance at the Harvard-Yale football game, today may be the largest single gathering of uninebriated Harvard alumni each year.) Harvard is governed by its alumni; it is the alumni who (technically) elect the Board of Overseers, which (technically) controls the appointment of top University officials. Today is the one opportunity for the alumni—the real powers-that-be here at Harvard—to engage in a face-to-face discussion regarding the University’s direction. Inevitably, that...
...With just a month left in his tenure, Bok said last week that he would decide whether to overhaul the calendar this week. As this story went to press, a decision had not yet been announced, but the idea of changing the calendar had gained the support of President-elect Drew G. Faust, the University’s deans, and many students...
...said in today’s statement. “The very fact that so many institutions have adopted similar calendars and maintained them over many years suggests that there are no practical problems of sufficient magnitude to militate against the change.”Though President-elect Faust was not officially involved in the decision, she has said that she communicated with Bok on the issue throughout this spring.“I would be delighted to have a new calendar approved as it would represent a critical step in uniting the University,” she wrote...