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...night after the Prefect Program’s protest, Rinere met again with the program’s student leaders.The prefects didn’t object to Rinere’s peer-advising agenda. The path mapped out by the student-faculty committee’s report, which would expand the peer advising system’s academic counseling role, was the “direction [the prefect leadership] wanted to see itself go,” says Lindsay C. Page, the proctor-adviser to the prefects. The program’s student leaders understood that they...
...Faculty’s long-term growth plans. Members had become more vocal in their criticisms of the perceived failures of the central administration.In many ways, McDonald had helped build the foundation for the group that exists today—a more-permanent body that now even plans to expand after the resignation of Summers, with the potential to become one of the main players in FAS politics far into the future. “Christie had a very tough job in the fall and did a great job,” says History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon...
This has been a year of change for the academic and social lives of undergraduates. Some of our most established programs continue to expand, with about one-sixth of the student body planning to study or work abroad during term time or over the summer, and almost three-quarters of all freshmen enrolled in one of our 125 freshman seminars. The implementation of the curricular review’s proposals has begun, most notably in rethinking concentrations, creating new foundational courses, and revamping advising. And the campus life of the College has begun to thrive in new and exciting ways.The...
...better teach our students and to engage in new areas of research, our tenured and tenure-track faculty have grown from 635 to more than 710 members in the past four years. This represents the most explosive growth in the past 35 years. And we will continue to expand to a faculty...
...differences. I'm willing to take on the tough issues of closing corporate loopholes and ask the wealthy to give back some of their huge tax breaks. I believe we'll be the richest, strongest California if we have the best schools, more young people going to college, and expand health care for working families. This governor has cut education, he's failed to balance the budget, and he's turned his back on working men and women...