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...mentor Mike Krzyzewski. Amaker is currently the only African-American head coach among Harvard’s 32 head coaches. The lack of minorities had drawn criticism from the Boston Globe and CBS SportsLine.com, among others, but both Scalise and Amaker denied that race played a role in the hiring decision. “Once we’ve amassed a candidate pool, then our job is to hire the best possible person for the job—and that’s what we’ve done here.” Scalise said. “Tommy Amaker...
...pertaining to undergraduate education on the dean’s plate is the ongoing curricular review. On paper, the new system could either become a realigned Core or a completely different and innovative curriculum. Which path it takes lies in the finer details of its implementation, particularly finding and hiring personnel for the new system, all of which the new FAS dean will decide.The General Education system can only be a drastic change if it includes a plethora of new classes and an emphasis on pedagogical innovation. For instance, Humanities 10, “An Introduction to Humanities Colloquium...
...result of its educational failings, Brazilian companies are struggling to find qualified workers, and even those they do hire often lack the necessary savvy to contribute to the companies' long-term success. "There are two conceptual frameworks to understand innovation," says Alberto Rodriguez, author of a soon-to-be-released World Bank study on how better education spurs growth. "You have the high-tech, frontier innovation, and you have the adaptation and improvement of technology that happen day to day in firms." Economists call that everyday improvement total factor productivity. It is the x factor that allows an economy...
...before the announcement, Nichols Family Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise countered widespread criticism of the lack of diversity in the upper ranks of the Crimson’s coaching staffs. At a gathering hosted by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, Scalise stressed the difficulty of hiring minority coaches. Scalise said it was particularly hard to foster diversity in sports such as alpine and nordic skiing, field hockey, and women’s lacrosse—sports he described as “white middle-class suburban.” “We contact the Black...
...stem cell research. The new department will collaborate with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), which currently facilitates University-wide investigation in the field, but it will be better able to centralize resources for stem cell research than the Institute could alone, in particular gaining the power to hire its own faculty. The Corporation established the new department with impressive speed, despite its radical departure from the University’s traditionally decentralized paradigm. The University Planning Committee on Science and Engineering (UPCSE) only recommended the department’s creation four months ago in the committee?...