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...African-American Studies Professor Kay K. Shelemay.FLEXIBILITY BUILT ON A ‘COMMON GROUND’This year’s concentration changes also reflect a desire to give students leeway to pave their own path within their concentration—but not before they take classes that ground them in the framework of the field.The English department has slashed most of its requirements—including its “Major British Writers” series, English 10a and 10b—in favor of granting its concentrators more electives. But the reduction has come with a renewed...
...This belief marks a point of contrast—and a consequent breeding ground for radical discontent—between union leadership and Reform HUCTW. The executive board believes fruitful communication between management and workers is possible, that the discussion is “side-by-side at the table rather than across from the table,” Kluz says. “We share interests in what we want to accomplish—it’s just a matter of how we’re going to get there.” But in Dupree?...
...Forst, who “hit the ground running” in June before his official start date, soon became one of Faust’s closest advisers, University Provost Steven E. Hyman says of his “administrative twin.” In the newly created role of EVP, Forst was responsible for managing Harvard’s finance, administration, and human resources offices—all of which previously reported directly to the President. And Forst—as well as his financial expertise—has proven invaluable to Faust over the past year...
...Faust hopes to install a Dean that can hit the ground running on the budget and continue the budgetary reforms initiated by Jackson, she may favor him as permanent Dean. Professors Manning, Minow, and Wilkins lack Jackson’s familiarity with the budget and might be unable to make progress on the budget as quickly, according to several senior professors on the faculty...
...though she added that this is standard practice at Harvard. With markets deteriorating, Shore, Harvard’s CFO, says that by the fall, it was clear “the old capital plan didn’t fit the new reality, so we basically started fresh from the ground up—what are the projects we need to do, what are our priorities.”According to Christopher M. Gordon, chief operating officer for Harvard’s Allston Development Group, planners methodically examined all of the University’s capital commitments throughout the fall, with...