Word: ellison
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According to Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who worked closely with Ellison while serving as Master of the graduate student dorm Dudly House, it is not out of the ordinary for graduate school deans to step down after tenures as short as Ellison?...
...glad to do it. We accomplished a lot, but I am looking forward to getting back to my first love, which is teaching and research,” said Ellison, who will continue to teach courses as Cowley Professor of Anthropology...
Ellison’s tenure as dean was marked by a significant increase in the amount of financial aid given to GSAS students. Every student admitted in this year’s admissions cycle will receive full funding for all five years of graduate study, said Ellison. When he first took office, the graduate school extended two years of financial aid to only 60 percent of students. This increase in funding has allowed the graduate school to attract increasingly better students...
...Ellison said he first became intimately involved with the GSAS when he chaired a committee which suggested ways to improve graduate student financial aid. Ellison was then appointed GSAS dean in 2000 to oversee the implementation of these recommendations...
During his tenure, Ellison oversaw the creation of five inter-Faculty Ph.D. programs, and was responsible for combining three Harvard biological science programs into the Harvard Integrated Life Sciences Program...