Word: gsas
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Brandt also spoke about the need to improve the culture of mentoring within GSAS...
...also assured the GSAS student audience that Dudley House could only be positively affected by the initiative...
...really need to talk as a community of students about how to get what you need,” Brandt said, adding that students who come to Harvard to pursue graduate studies should not feel obligated to work towards a Ph.D. GSAS students said they were glad to have the chance to hear from Faust directly and are optimistic about GSAS’s relationship with University-level administrators...
Despite the effects of the financial crisis on the University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Allan M. Brandt said the school has no plans to cut funding for any of its programs. Brandt said, however, that GSAS administrators have made modest modifications to the school’s administrative budget upon the request of Michael D. Smith, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Smith has asked all departments for 10 to 15 percent budget cuts in order to meet the more than $100 million shortfall across FAS in the next fiscal year...
...Solving this problem would seem, at first, to be simply a matter of funding. If the endowment cannot sustain a major capital expenditure, then find a donor like Harkness. When schools like the GSAS are cutting their admissions by 10 percent, the College has no right to demand more comfortable housing—however crucial it may be to intellectual development. So why not turn to Rich Uncle Pennybags, some...