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...members of a university community, we are in the unique position to serve as ambassadors of environmental awareness to our peers and the community at large. Although its students hail from across the country and around the world, Harvard is not an isolated entity. In this focus, we have highlight environmental issues that are salient at Harvard, and in Boston and Massachusetts...
...hope that this focus draws attention to environmental problems and initiatives occurring inside and outside the Yard. Climate change is a global issue, but also one that can be addressed at home...
...committee gave no budgetary details or suggestions for specific projects, but committee co-chair Lizabeth Cohen—who will also take over as chair of the History Department when she returns from Oxford this summer—wrote in an e-mail last night that the focus will be “imagining creative possibilities, not anticipating [financial] limitations.” After the committee makes its final recommendations in early fall 2009, Cohen said that funds to implement the plans will come from the central administration and dedicated fundraising. “President Faust and Mass Hall...
...members of the Brown Corporation owned or captained slave ships in the first half century of the institution’s history, according to Campbell. The report did also find instances in which members of the institution played important roles in the abolitionist movement.While Campbell said his main focus in compiling the report was to fulfill the charge given him by Simmons, he nevertheless hoped the report would establish an important precedent for other universities. “In my heart I always hoped and expected that the work we were doing here, if we did it responsibly, thoroughly...
...track faculty to provide instruction in a number of fields—from philosophy to history to language studies. For example, the Philosophy department remains incomplete without course offerings in aesthetic philosophy or the philosophy of art. Students wishing to study these fields have no choice but to instead focus on analytic philosophy, an entirely different animal. At an institution as reputable as Harvard, where resources are plentiful enough to hire qualified faculty with diverse research interests, no student should feel unable to pursue their interests due to a lack of faculty resources. Smith’s plan will ultimately...