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...While administrators who work directly under her say that Hammonds has the best interests of students in mind, others acknowledge that a limited understanding of undergraduate life has undermined her ability to effectively represent student interests...
...When Jaeger arrived at Harvard in 1984 to work as a staff assistant in what was then known as the Russian Research Center, the Soviet relations and arms-control junkie had graduate school in mind. Unimpressed with the overt antagonism of unions during his undergraduate years at Yale, Jaeger says he felt “pretty skeptical” of his Harvard colleagues’ union activity. But something was different at his new workplace. A year after his arrival, Jaeger left his staff position to work full-time as a union organizer, finding time even to serve as lead...
...extremely happy both for her and for the College because I think it’s only in the best interest of the students that we’ll be able to take classes with her and we’ll be able to be exposed to her mind and her enthusiasm for the material,” said former student and thesis advisee Andrew C. Coles ’09. Carpio arrived at Harvard in 2002, following the widely-publicized departure of African American studies Professors K. Anthony Appiaha and Cornel R. West ’74 for Princeton...
...classes] should feel real—not something you just have to sleepwalk through so you can check off the box,” Buckler says. “It shouldn’t feel arcane or ‘academic.’ It should feel like a mind-opening kind of experience—accessible yet really stimulating, even transformative.” She paused and chuckled. “Even though that’s kind of idealistic.” —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...
...make cuts,” says Kevin J. Davies ’10, a Quincy House resident. “But that’s not how it should be acting. The University has a responsibility to include students in the decisions it’s making, keeping in mind that we are paying tuition and we make Harvard what it is... The University seems like it doesn’t care about students, which is a shame...