Word: knitting
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Among his top goals, Rudenstine cited improving undergraduate education, diversity and student aid. He also intended to “knit the University together” by creating programs between the traditionally separate faculties and introducing the first post-war provost...
...projects played into Rudenstine’s fundamental goal for the University—to knit the faculties together. The remodeling of the Harvard Union paved the way for a new, centralized humanities complex, The Barker Center for the Humanities. Likewise, restoration of the 140-year-old Boylston Hall brought together five other humanities departments...
...Although health education and wellness classes are two of our goals, our real mission is to find ways to foster building close-knit House communities. CHI is based on the idea of bringing the House community together by involving the House masters, tutors, UHS affiliates and existing campus groups in workshops, classes, dinner discussions and campus-wide events. Building genuinely supportive communities in randomized housing will require some work, but that is necessary for Harvard to remain a vibrant institution...
...Among his top goals, the newly arrived Rudenstine cited improving undergraduate education, diversity and student aid. Above all, he intended to “knit the University together” by creating programs between the faculties and introducing the first post-war provost. Rudenstine wanted to shift the age-old University paradigm of “every tub on its own bottom” to “every tub on each other’s bottom,” to create an interdependent relationship between the many tubs—aka faculties—of the University...
...Rudenstine’s renovations were not a purely artistic endeavor. He carefully combined his aesthetic vision with his fundamental goal for the University—to knit the faculties together. The remodeling of the Harvard Union paved the way for a new, centralized humanities complex, The Barker Center for the Humanities. Likewise, restoration of the 140-year-old Boylston Hall brought together five other humanities departments...