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...prosecuted collaboratively by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the Harvard Medical School (HMS). Second, we move the Harvard School of Education and the School of Public Health to Allston to form a linked cluster with the Harvard Business School. Third, to provide some “life?? over in Allston, we import three undergraduate houses and some retail shops. Fourth, we plan for a cultural institution, probably a contemporary annex to the Cambridge museums. Given these four constraints, we arrange the building blocks to satisfy the flow of people and infrastructure. Each step thoroughly sensible...
...undergraduates presumably made happy by the generosity of donors to the Fund. They leap out at any reader and are enough to make even a minor donor feel good about writing their check. In actuality, however, their donation to the Fund may never make its way back to undergraduate life??a deception that must be corrected...
...Faust’s leadership is also needed to reinvent pedagogy at Harvard, as the Faculty has been unmotivated by a landmark report on Harvard’s teaching deficiencies and refuses to require teaching evaluations for all courses.The Faculty has also resisted investing in the undergraduate experience. Student life??which was reinvigorated under Summers thanks to a philosophy that responded to and spent money on student satisfaction—proved to be interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles’ blind spot. We hope that Faust recognizes the importance of the undergraduate experience and continues...
Vijay Yanamadala ’07 says his life??s calling is research that makes an impact on society. Coming to Harvard primarily intent on taking advantage of research resources, Yanamadala has certainly made an impact beyond the laboratory. “We can measure our success as researchers in terms of the positive benefits to society,” he says. “To do that we must remain actively engaged in society rather than conducting our research in isolation.” Yanamadala’s outreach effort can be notably seen in his high...
...remember much of what I learned in my classes. I can say, however, that I leave here with a rejuvenated sense of what is important in the world, and a heightened appreciation of the mystery, splendor—and as on Lake Quinsigamond—disappointment inherent in life??s unfolding. I’m pretty sure that this isn’t what Harvard set out to teach me, and I know that it isn’t what I set out to learn when I first arrived here. And yet it remains a lesson for which...