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...Certainly if we have to cut one open house out of four, or one study break, or one major House dinner out of four, I think the quality of life for students would no doubt be impoverished,” he adds...
...also incredible potential and promise, and yours is the task of finding that promise by remaking the world.” Law School students have often been too risk-averse or too unwilling to take chances in the past, Kagan said—especially in a past when major law firms offered job security and six-figure salaries. As a result, the economic turmoil might have the beneficial side-effect of causing graduates to think through what career choices would be most fulfilling, she said. Kagan extended two other pieces of tried and true advice to the degree candidates?...
...vote on Allston proposals. “Matters regarding the allocation of resources by Massachusetts Law are reserved for the Harvard Corporation,” he said.And the secrecy of the planning troubled professors as well. When former Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Jeremy R. Knowles penned a major report on Allston in 2003 that argued against moving FAS sciences across the river, professors were only allowed to read the report behind closed University Hall and department chair doors. Concerns soon swirled in FAS that planning for Allston was a “fait accompli” and that...
...overhaul economic thinking.“I don’t think there’s any new particles being discovered,” Merton says, comparing the fundamentals of finance—market efficiency and risk-benefit analysis—to the building blocks of physical matter.While several major financial institutions have disappeared, leaving experts to sift through the wreckage, many Harvard professors said that the backlash on quantitative models was largely unwarranted. Furthermore, they say quantitative models have become so prevalent in recent years—used everywhere from hedge funds to central banks—that drastically...
...students who went before the board on probation or required them to withdraw for some period of time, typically one to two years.FACULTY LEGISLATIONReview committee members will also be working with deans this summer to draft legislation for the faculty to amend student handbook policies on the Ad Board.Some major changes that will require a vote of the full Faculty include increasing the range of punishments available to the Ad Board in cases of academic dishonesty, re-examining Harvard’s dismissal policy, and clarifying the definition of inappropriate collaboration in the handbook, Sundquist said.A STUDENT VOICE?The next...