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These bodies include the Office for Faculty Development, which, led by Associate Dean for Faculty Development Laura Gordon Fisher, works with departments to identify qualified female and minority candidates for tenure; the Task Force on Faculty Diversity, which was designed to focus on addressing the lack of female faculty in the natural and engineering sciences; and a twin task force created this year to address the same problems in the humanities and social sciences...
Harvard was well-represented in Ivy honors. Juniors midfielder Katie Westfall and back Caitlin Fisher were the squad’s two first-team All-Ivy representatives for the second straight year. Seniors Totman and leading scorer Joey Yenne made the second team, as did sophomore back Liza Barber...
...faculty were afraid that the common vocabulary that the initial ‘Red Book’ [which laid the foundation for Gen Ed] had established for students would be lost,” says Associate Dean for Faculty Development Laura G. Fisher, who was the senior tutor of Eliot House and a member of the Committee on House and Undergraduate Life at the time, “but others argued that the dilution of Gen Ed had already accomplished that...
...Cutler, Fisher Professor of Natural History Andrew Knoll and Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar currently hold these academic deanships. The deans, who each serve three-year terms, organize the ad hoc committees that advise Summers on all tenure cases. Cutler said that there are typically 30 to 35 ad hoc meetings per year...
...provides an overall coherent direction but respects their autonomy. “The editors he’s hired have been told that they have the capacity to shape their own lists and follow their own instincts as to what to publish,” says Michael G. Fisher ’73, a science editor. “He doesn’t tell editors what areas to work in—he lets that come from the editor.” Adams has similar praise for Sisler’s style. “Bill has been...