Word: grosse
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Shortly after his appointment as College dean, Gross announced some of his major priorities, including driving through the curricular review and addressing concerns over alcohol use by offering students more social opportunities and spaces...
...David and I both worked on all aspects of College life, and didn't divide the office up as in the past," Gross wrote, adding that the future organization of the College dean's office would ultimately be the decision of incoming Faculty Dean Michael D. Smith...
Fast-forward four years, and it appears that Gross has accomplished his initial goals: the faculty voted on a new undergraduate curriculum this spring, an office of undergraduate advising now exists in University Hall, a peer advising program, a delay in concentration choice, and a secondary-field program are all in place, and students now can congregate in a student organizations center, a women's center, the Lamont Library Café, freshman common rooms, and even an undergraduate pub. Additionally, offices for alcohol safety and sexual assault prevention exist on campus to serve students, and changes to the student handbook...
...accomplished a lot in a very short period of time," Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II said of Gross's tenure...
...accomplish his goals, Gross had to work within an administrative structure that does not give the College equal standing to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) or Harvard’s other prominent institutions such as the law or business schools. Rather than operate autonomously with its own budget, the College receives its funding from the FAS each year and the dean of the College reports to the FAS dean, rather than to the president. According to Gross, he has only seen Interim President Derek C. Bok three times this past year—at opening ceremonies...