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...Solomon Amendment—that is an issue directly related to us,” Casey said. “But we have not taken a position on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.”However, the Harvard College Handbook for Students does say that “current federal policy of excluding known lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals from admission to ROTC or of discharging them from service is inconsistent with Harvard’s values.” And in a December 2004 letter to a gay and lesbian...
According to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faculty Handbook, “The title of ‘Visiting’ is used only for those temporary appointees who hold a continuing position elsewhere.” But Miron no longer has a permanent position outside of Harvard, and when his five years are up, he could face unemployment...
...still exists today. A 1997 re-accreditation report lists an Academic Council chaired by the president and including the provost as well as “the deans of the several faculties,” and the Graduate School of Design still lists the Academic Council in its faculty handbook. But the Academic Council—with just a few top administrators among its members—is a far cry from the representative University-wide body that some professors have been proposing.BRING BACK THE COUNCILThe calls for a University senate emerged amid tensions between FAS and Harvard?...
...employ bodies of this type in order to facilitate inter-school communication and cohesiveness. Stanford, Columbia, New York University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Kansas all have representative bodies that cross traditional divisional lines. Harvard too has a provision for a University Council in its faculty handbook, a provision which has collected dust for too long and needs to be activated. For a University that boasts such a distinguished and progressive faculty in all of its schools, Harvard is not living up to its own standard when it refuses to democratize and consolidate the voice...
...bypass introductory level courses, as is the policy at many colleges. At Harvard, by contrast, “AP Biology does not substitute for any concentration requirement in biology”—including the requirement that concentrators must take an introductory course, according to the undergraduate student handbook. Freshmen who scored 4 or 5 on the AP exam in chemistry can enroll in a sophomore level Chemistry Department course, according to the undergraduate course catalogue. But in the Physics Department, a score of 5 on the mechanics section of the AP Physics C exam is needed to place...