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Last fall, responding to abnormally high levels of student dissatisfaction, Harvard Law School (HLS) commissioned McKinsey & Co. to survey disgruntled law students. The results confirm what many of us knew all along: HLS needs to focus more attention on its basic educational issues, such as decreasing class sizes, hiring more faculty and revamping its grading system. HLS has already formed exploratory committees to address some of these issues, but the true test of responsiveness will be whether the administration institutes some, if not all, of these reforms by next fall...
...Both HLS students and faculty members have clamored for smaller class sizes, which would require a smaller student-faculty ratio. If HLS were to reduce the size of its classes, the administration would have to shift resources and commit itself to recruiting and hiring more professors. Currently, the 1999 U.S. World News and World Report ranks Harvard's 20-1 student-faculty ratio the highest of the nations' top 25 law schools. Large classes, according to many responses to the McKinsey survey, contribute to a palpable sense of disconnect between the students and the school. Expectedly, students at law schools...
Before the speech, a group of students from the Harvard Law School (HLS) and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) distributed packets of press clippings to people entering the forum, in protest of Buchanan's speech...
...articles focused on the things we find objectionable about Buchanan: his bigotry against blacks, gays, women and Jews," Avi M. Bell, a student at HLS, wrote in an e-mail message. "One article focused on his praise for Adolf Hitler and his associations with the movement to deny the Holocaust. Another was an article by Buchanan from last year in which he wrote that Harvard has too many non-whites and non-Christians and that action must be taken to rectify the problem...
...school finished its most recent capital campaign in June of 1995, and many of the funds raised went towards enhancing physical facilities at HLS such as Langdell Library...