Word: focus
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With the realization of this goal, Harvard will be able to invite visiting scholars that focus on varying facets of the interdisciplinary field of LGBT studies, instead of appointing a full professor of more narrow expertise, he said...
...Over the last year, some of the people involved in the Committee on House Life synthesized research obtained from focus groups, five House Program Planning Subcommittees, and student surveys. Chief among their findings, Nelson says, was that the Houses needed to be modernized—and not merely with cosmetic improvements like fresh coats of paint, but rather with extensive interior renovations like replacing internal plumbing...
...balance between House renovation and House history needed to be reached, Nelson says. To that end, the report concludes that preserving the “historic mystique of a Harvard building” must be coupled with the more practical concerns gleaned from the CHL’s focus groups and surveys, in which students asked for basic improvements such as better lighting and heating, increased privacy, and greater sound-proofing...
...would need to be devoted to making J-Term programming a reality. “If formal programming was to be a success, a lot of resources had to be devoted to it,” says former Harvard professor Lisa L. Martin, a co-chair of a committee focused on J-Term during the time of curricular review. “But this never happened.”Though the Conley report suggested that an office and staff should be dedicated to J-Term planning, and administrators and members of the committee say they have long recognized that these...
...market turmoil by “staying true to our academic values and our long-term ambitions.” But just three months later, she cited the University’s “collective obligation to face the situation with the right balance of short-term focus and long-term ambition” in soberly announcing her decision to slow construction of the Allston Science Complex—long considered the lynchpin of Harvard’s 50-year planned expansion. Now, with the University’s budgets critically strained, some have suggested that Harvard?...