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...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?...
...difficulty involved in solving models that include the possibility of extremely unusual phenomena.Other economists may not be asking the right questions, even before reaching the stage of setting up models.The pressure on academic economists to publish prolifically, especially at the start of their careers, tends to encourage them to focus on problems that existing analytical tools can solve.“The recipe for something to be a successful research project,” Stein says, “is that it has to be interesting to some people and has to offer an idea or tool that others...
...College Paul J. McLoughlin once quipped that walking the Yard with him was like accompanying a governor—”he really knows everyone”). Flores is more reserved.And it’s partly circumstance.Rather than network with administrators, Flores made it her stated priority to focus on relationships with students. But in a semester defined by planned reductions in College spending on student life, Flores was forced to refocus her attention toward College politics, though perhaps too late.Flores and her Council found themselves without a seat at the table when decisions were made, generally unable...