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Harvard science historian Allan M. Brandt has been selected as the next dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), according to a draft of an acceptance letter obtained by The Crimson...
Reached at his home tonight, Brandt declined to comment. Theda Skocpol, the current dean of GSAS who announced her resignation in March, also declined to comment. She has continued to hold the deanship during the search for her successor...
Indeed, the model of a research university is based on the idea that students will learn more when they learn from those who are pushing the boundaries of a field. When the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) was created in 1872, University President Charles W. Eliot argued to skeptics worried that graduate studies would dilute undergraduate education that the GSAS would actually strengthen the College. Only “if [professors] have to teach graduate students as well as undergraduates,” he argued, would they “regard their subjects as infinite, and keep...
However, when asked what he believed the chances were that the first-choice candidate would accept the GSAS job, bringing a quick conclusion to a long process, Sollors said he did not feel comfortable speculating...
Smith said that without the completion of appointments to the vacant deanships of both the College and GSAS, it has been difficult to conduct these reviews...