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While both sides agreed the meeting was cooperative, some faculty present at the meeting said they came away disenchanted. One professor at the meeting said that some faculty felt “considerable concern” about the refusal of Summers and Kirby to implement further institutional reforms...
...Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) moves into phase two—formulating plans to implement the broad concepts outlined in the spring—it is vital that Harvard remain committed to the review’s purpose. Last week, after the University announced the Faculty appointments to HCCR committees, Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 called for “adequate discussion” fearing that the deans behind the review “already know what they want to get out of it.” We share Mahan’s concern...
...dustup that harks back to the VHS-vs.-Betamax standards showdown at the dawn of the VCR era, the industry has splintered into two warring camps over how best to implement blue-laser technology. Spearheading one group is Sony, which promotes a technology it calls Blu-ray. Sony senior vice president Kiyoshi Nishitani, a battle-tested engineer who heads up the Blu-ray initiative, says his company began work on the new technology four years ago and quickly enlisted Matsushita (best known for its Panasonic brand), Philips and Pioneer, among others, as allies in its cause. All was going well...
Kirby announced a new initiative in which he said divisional deans will implement “extra-departmental mechanisms for identifying outstanding talent, with particular attention to women and minority faculty who might be recruited to Harvard.” He added that he had asked the deans for interim reports at the end of the semester with lists of tenure candidates and processes by which they would be included in searches...
After the much-anticipated, though less than visionary, Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) report was released last year, we had our doubts about the College’s resolve to implement substantive changes. To be sure, the report contained many good reforms long in the waiting, such as replacing the Core curriculum and better incorporating international study into the broader curriculum. But the report seemed lackluster when it came to many areas of college life, and those areas that were not overlooked, the suggested solutions were sometimes deeply misguided. But this week, after it was revealed that Dean of Freshmen...