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Besides instituting new programs, Moses has spent much of his time reflecting about the adjustment students must make once they come to college. Moses recently published a book entitled Inside College, which details many students' struggle with newfound freedom and dealing with a diverse community for the first time.
Moses says making decisions within a more open structure is one of the most crucial skills students gain in their first year at college. He adds that adjusting to Harvard's particular community, which has one of the most diverse student bodies, is even harder than the usual process.
"It is an unbelievably varied population at this place because people here are so smart and so opinionated that their differences are very strongly expressed," Moses says.
He says adjusting to this diversity represents one of the most important changes in college life in the past few decades and will continue to be a pressing topic. That issue of community was not discussed 30 years ago, Moses says, when students at the College were almost exclusively white...
"In the 1990s, the challenges of freedom and diversity aren't going away," Moses predicts. "In fact, they'll become fiercer."