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...this dual season. The lightweights are 1-2, with its only victory coming against seventh-ranked MIT. Against the top competition this year, the team has fallen short. With losses against No. 2 Princeton and the No. 4 Hoyas on the river this year, the crew has failed to notch an elusive victory against these top squads. Yet the team only lost to Georgetown by one second and raced the Tigers closely on the Charles. With disappointment comes hope for improvement, and the lightweight crew is banking on it. “We’ve made some lineup changes...
...eight, which posted a blazing time of 6:35.7, the team beat out Northeastern, Boston University, Boston College, and MIT.In that varsity eight heat, Radcliffe came off the line fast and proceeded to pull away from the rest of the crews on the river. The squad never looked back, notching a 9.6-second win over the second-place Huskies. “The Beanpot is a lot of hometown pride—it was definitely an uplifting thing for the team,” junior Esther Lofgren said. “And we were overall a consistently strong team throughout...
...researchers, these young junior faculty members are in many cases Harvard’s most popular, approachable, and dedicated teachers, which is why undergraduates and graduate students alike are so upset when top candidates are denied tenure. Harvard’s reluctance to tenure junior professors sends these top notch teachers away and deters young, enterprising academics from coming to Harvard. In addition to facing meager tenure prospects, Harvard junior faculty tend to be underpaid compared to nationwide averages, particularly in the social and physical sciences.While some of Harvard’s antipathy towards junior professors stems from systemic flaws...
...want to teach a course focused on the particular area in which they are an expert, which explains why so many Core courses are narrow and specific. There is, however, a clear solution: The new dean should lift FAS’ illogical rule that sends away lecturers, top-notch teachers better suited to teaching broad subjects and developing new classes, after eight years of teaching. Instead, lecturers’ contracts should also be indefinitely renewable if their services are needed and they are willing to provide them.The new system’s success also depends largely on the availability...
Beyond hiring with both research and teaching priorities in mind, the new FAS dean should also consider borrowing the time of faculty from across the University to alleviate the teaching crunch. While FAS has a high student-faculty ratio in the social sciences, there are many top-notch teachers at places like the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education who would love to teach liberal arts courses to undergraduates. Currently, Harvard’s other faculties are an underutilized resource. The new dean should take steps to facilitate such inter-school cooperation which would improve pedagogy...