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...funding of the department may decrease by over 20 percent. Finding places to trim poses a unique challenge to smaller departments, in which staff salaries take up a large proportion of budgeted funds. Staff salaries are not under the purview of departments, according to Daniel G. Donoghue, the English department’s director of undergraduate studies. This means that reducing overall spending requires slashing chunks of already small departmental operational costs. “The 15 percent is actually a much larger figure for some programs because budgets often include staff salaries, which can?...
...Theater is not created in a vacuum but rather speaks to both our individual and social conditions. Kenneth Tynan, the influential English theater critic, wrote: “No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.” For that reason, the goals of producing a show should be much larger than merely to create what happens onstage...
...panel of prominent scholars that included University President Drew G. Faust debated the complexities of Abraham Lincoln’s legacy before a packed audience at the Institute of Politics last night. Faust was joined by Pulitzer prize winner Tony Kushner, Harvard English professor John Stauffer, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, Yale University professor David W. Blight, and Gettysburg University professor Allen C. Guelzo for the discussion, which focused on the realities that underlie the Lincoln myth. Harvard professor of African-American studies Henry Louis Gates Jr. served as the moderator. “Every generation of Americans since...
...Fine Arts programs might be created. In addition, Harvard students will now have free admission to Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art, in addition to the Museum of Fine Arts, which is already free for students. Task Force leader and English Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt said on Friday evening that while he did not expect Task Force recommendations to go forward unhindered by financial troubles, he is pleased that “the University has decided that it will actually embrace this opportunity and move forward.”Faust?...
...Reportedly speaks many languages, including Dutch, German, English, Urdu and Hindi, as well as basic French and Persian...