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Edward L. Keenan, Jr., dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and chairm of the Committee on Women's Studies said yesterday that the committee has already scheduled three other speakers for the academic year including Katherine R. Stimpson, professor of English Literature at Barnard and editor-in-chief of "Signs", a leading journal in the field of women's studies...
Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and then member of a committee on the admissions and financial aid aspects of the merger, did not believe in hasty Faculty action either. He advised that all decisions on future relationships between Harvard and Radcliffe "be deferred until all considerations pro and con from both communities have been heard." Bunting also opposed the Faculty making a decisive statement on the merger. "It would be premature for this Faculty to take any action at this time that would limit the options," she warned...
Edward L. Keenan'57, dean of the GSAS, said yesterday the program is among several changes intended to introduce GSAS students to "the real world" and to increase the job opportunities for the school's graduates...
...haven't proved yourself until your work is published in your last year," Smolin explains. "Invariably Harvard professors obey the tradition of ignoring students," says Susan Napier, a graduate student in East Asian studies. But Smolin feels the administration is aware of the problem. He says his discussions with Keenan reveal that Keenan is "genuinely concerned with the problem." The decreased size of the school may lead to more Faculty-student contact, but no one can yet predict if the pressure of fewer students will allow Faculty members to feel more free to isolate themselves in their research...
...Financial aid at Harvard is need-based and we are most generous in this regard," Keenan explains. He believes that although the system for financial grants is complex, it works and "we will stick with it." And about financial aid for minority students, Lipsky says that so far the GSAS has been able to support the minority students to whom they've offered positions, adding that many have outside money with GSAS fellowships as additional aid. "Nobody has ever been turned away for lack of funds," Lipsky says. But she acknowledges that the graduate school will eventually be unable...