Word: gsas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard, about 30 percent of all GSAS students are now leaving the school without finishing their Ph.D.s Those who stay are taking a year to two years longer to finish their degree studies than they did just five years ago. The federal government has cut its financial support for Harvard's GSAS in half during the last decade...
Although he says the GSAS is already "very competitive" with the graduate schools of other major universities in its job placement track record, Keenan believes the individual departments "can and will do more" to find academic appointments for their students in the future...
Although Keenan has never served as an administrator at Harvard's GSAS before, he garnered some first-hand experience with the vagaries of graduate school administration through a professional commitment he keeps halfway around the world. For the past two years, Keenan has served as one of the three American members of the board of overseers of the new Iranian national graduate school being built outside Teheran, Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU). Four times a year, Keenan makes the 16-hour plane trip to Teheran, where he confers with the other RSKU directors over a three-day weekend...
Keenan displays a warmth and respect for Harvard that is a sterling example of institutional loyalty. There was seemingly no question but that he would accept the GSAS post when Dean Rosovsky finally chose him as his candidate for the job after a four-month-long search process. "When the dean asks me to do something, I do it," Keenan says...
Unlike most GSAS deans of the past, who carried half their normal teaching loads while serving as dean, Keenan intends to teach his full complement of courses this year, including a Gen Ed course, Social Sciences 30, "Lands and People of the USSR." "I'm not a workaholic and I'm not going to kill myself on purpose," Keenan says of his decision to not cut back on his teaching. "The crucial thing will be if I don't have time for my own work--my research and writing. If that happens, I'll have to make an agonizing reassessment...