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...Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Theda Skocpol announced a number of new initiatives within the GSAS at yesterday’s meeting, including the creation of a secondary field in film and visual studies for PhD students and the availability of $15,000 to $25,000 in seed grants to fund planned improvements in graduate education...
...typical student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) only sees Harvard’s president twice during their long stay at Harvard—once when they are welcomed to Harvard and once when they graduate. And only half of graduate students even see the president in the welcoming ceremony, since he alternates bi-annually with the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the keynote speaker. The absence of the University’s president at such an important juncture leaves the impression that he or she is uninterested in the graduate student body...
...president should lack the good sense and good taste that would allow him to say “economists are smarter than political scientists, and political scientists are smarter than sociologists” as Summers allegedly did to Cowles Professor of Anthropology Peter T. Ellison, the former dean of GSAS. It didn’t help that Summers, an economist, was concurrently trying to shift funding from a sociology program to the Kennedy School. Such virulent disciplinary biases are unacceptable. The next president of Harvard should work from the top to promote vibrant intellectual exchange by creating an environment...
...next president, however, should make a greater effort to reach out to students across the University’s campus including in its graduate and professional programs. To be fair, beyond opening ceremonies and commencement, there is an annual “meet the president” event where GSAS students have the opportunity to pose questions. While we undoubtedly appreciate any occasion to interact with the president, our next leader should make a stronger effort to be accessible to graduate students throughout the year...
...easy for students at the College to adopt the attitude that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is the center of Harvard, the truth remains that Harvard is not an institution consisting solely of undergraduates, their professors, and members of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). Under the existing governing institutions, a single faculty can both too easily be dismissed as an outlier and too easily generalized as representative of the larger University. Last February, when FAS voted “no-confidence” in Summers, confusion ensued. Was this emblematic of widespread discontent throughout...