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...main charge is to foster faculty development across the University and push for recruitment of women and minorities. The office’s website encourages schools within the University to submit applications for pilot funds that aim to “improve Harvard’s performance in developing scholars at all stages of the academic career ladder.” Jonathan Colburn, communications coordinator for the FD&D, notes that the fund is intended to promote the development of all faculty, regardless of previous representation. “Certainly all manner of faculty have applied for our pilot programs...
...boggles the mind. Hence our elation that University President Drew G. Faust has decided to create a University-wide social sciences task force to promote greater integration among Harvard’s far-flung social-science resources. Faust told The Crimson that she hopes this will encourage collaboration and foster the creation of a “support system” for social scientists. This is not the first time in recent years that the University has responded to the increased importance of interdisciplinary study in academia by reevaluating its structure of decentralized departments and schools. Indeed, the planned committee...
Last year, FAS voted to move the deadline for concentration choice to the end of students’ sophomore fall, effective for the Class of 2010 in an attempt to foster freer academic exploration and more informed concentration selection among undergraduates. Since then, most departments have been persuaded to modify their requirements in order to adapt to the new policy. One of the first casualties in virtually every department’s housecleaning was the sophomore fall tutorial: The days of the 97a’s are now but distant memories...
...joint concentrator in English and Classics in Eliot House. She hopes that the distinct perspective on life and Harvard embodied in her column, “Petri Dishes,” will foster the development of university culture. Join her on alternate Tuesdays as she tackles relevant issues while trying to avoid any more bad puns...
...that he can react to them in a form of dialogue. The academics are not shy. They make statements not only about the need for dialogue and reconciliation, but castigate the Iranian government for chilling press freedoms and for arresting Iranian-American scholars who were only trying to foster better relations between America and Iran. Throughout, Ahmadinejad is courtly, preternaturally calm, and fiercely articulate...