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...Stephen J. Greenblatt and several other members declined to offer details on the their unreleased report, but English professor and Humanities Center Director Homi K. Bhabha, who is also a member of the Task Force, said the results of their investigation would be based on an examination of peer institutions?? arts programs, student input, and previous arts initiatives at Harvard.“We’ve been looking closely at how the arts play a role at other institutions, such as Yale and Princeton,” he says.Last April, several members of the Task Force took...
...actions demonstrate the administration’s interest in obtaining some level of student input during the House renewal process. Yale and Princeton both embarked on large-scale construction and reconstruction projects in the recent past, and Harvard planners in HPPC were clearly wise to learn from their peer institutions?? experiences. As important, however, was the administrations’ decision to send students to Yale and Princeton as part of the team. Including these student members in HPPC, to serve alongside faculty, House masters, administrators, and planners from the Allston Development Group1, is a positive step towards ensuring...
...renovations project as an extended conversation, and not “a six-month planning period where everything is definitively decided followed by a year-long construction period where that plan is carried out strictly.” Many on the trip also said they were impressed by the institutions?? more efficient use of residential space following their renovations. “Yale has really taken advantage of their basement spaces in all their houses by building multimedia rooms, theatres in their basements, building performance spaces in their basements, having a printing press in the basement...
...Those largely open-ended questions elicited responses that varied widely in format—even from similar institutions??making it difficult for the finance committee to draw “intelligent conclusions,” Gerber said...
...crisis is brewing. In light of a several recent studies underscoring the importance of sleep for strong academic performance, a number of Massachusetts colleges have become alarmed to discover just how little their students are sleeping. The problem is endemic to many institutions??according to a 2007 study, nearly 40 percent of college students reported feeling rested no more than two nights a week. As a result, several nearby colleges including BU, MIT, Tufts, and Wellesley, have initiated sleep-awareness campaigns to enlighten students about the need for Z’s. With 24-hour libraries, time-consuming...