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This week, Lawrence H. Summers gets to participate in an age-old Harvard tradition that he hasn??t yet experienced during his tenure: move...
...since its release in November, but the Faculty failed to even discuss, much less take a vote on, the groundbreaking document at any of its full meetings during the year. While the report certainly has its shortcomings, those can only be addressed when serious debate begins. Thus far, it hasn??t. While the Faculty has made progress in terms of expanding the restrictive course offerings of the Core for next year, there has been far too much inertia with respect to discussing necessary, more sweeping reforms.When the Faculty finally got around to discussing the curricular review in April...
...does not call a constitutional convention every 25 years because someone says we’ve been living under the old constitution long enough. Similarly, the Harvard curriculum, our own clearest statement of educational principles, is not a throwaway. In any design problem, studying what has and hasn??t worked in the past is not timid or backward thinking; engineers try to improve working systems by modifying them. In fact, radical design changes usually fail. Marketers always like to talk about bold innovations, but real businesses never offer radical inventions to consumers without testing them. They...
...residential proctors shoulder the bulk of the freshman advising burden now. She also will work to consolidate advising resources in her office and on the Web and to improve advising within concentrations.With these challenges looming even as the Prefect Program uproar quiets down, it seems almost certain that Harvard hasn??t heard the last of its first advising dean.—Staff writer Nina L. Vizcarrondo can be reached at nvizcarr@fas.harvard.edu...
...said senior attackman Steve Cohen before the 11-4 loss to Syracuse. “Nobody even watched the selection show.”And despite the fact that the postseason trip was short-lived, the fact remains that it did do something for the program that hasn??t happened in ten years.“We got a taste of success,” Anderson said, “and that may be the biggest statement about the season—moving forward.”—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached...