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...school that usually reserves its collective campus pride for those Harvard traditions like The Game, Housing Day, or Commencement, you’re forgetting about another venerable New England institution??—the Beanpot hockey tournament of course...
...reports that would be unhesitatingly released by any other governmental police department.In 2003, The Crimson sued HUPD on this point, arguing that because HUPD is vested by the state with full police powers—powers which hold jurisdiction over all citizens, not just those affiliated with a private institution??€”it essentially operates as an agent of the state, and should thus be forced to surrender police records upon request just as any other police department would. The University disagreed, arguing that since HUPD’s records are the property of the University, a private entity, they...
...terms of junior faculty satisfaction, according to a recent study from the Graduate School of Education. The study, conducted by the Education School’s Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, asked some 7,000 tenure-track faculty members at 78 institutions to evaluate their employer institution??€™s performance in 12 categories. Among the categories used to gauge junior faculty satisfaction—including the reasonableness of the tenure process, support available for faculty members with families, and compensation—Harvard only received an exemplary rating in one area: teaching. Stanford and Brown University both...
...Endowed gifts are administered centrally by the University, Gergen said, and schools receive an annual payout that usually comes to about 4 percent of the principal. While this is the largest one-time gift to the Center, Gergen noted that Leslie and Abigail Wexner have been the institution??€™s largest overall benefactors. Leslie Wexner is the CEO of The Limited, a women’s clothing chain. The couple contributes $2.1 million annually to the Center, pledged over a period of nine years, according to Gergen. —Staff writer David K. Hausman can be reached...
...learn, for one thing, not to take the Cleveland Indians of the world lightly, but rather to give them their due. We should learn not to confound our institution??€™s legend with our own successes and failures—neither to gloat over our Harvard predecessors’ glory, nor to feel unworthy when we try our best and still fall short of their accomplishments...