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...initiated by her husband, former University President Lawrence H. Summers—helped the reform movement within the English department gain “momentum.”The “idea that the rest of the world was reforming itself” helped convince a number of English professors that it was time to review their own requirements, New says.Music department chair Anne C. Shreffler says that the curricular review helped professors think more creatively about their own departments’ curricula.“As you’re thinking about Gen Ed, you don?...
...particularly fitting for seniors who were turning away from or being edged out of the collapsing financial sector.Only 20 percent of seniors are entering finance and consulting this year, compared to 39 percent in 2008, according to Crimson surveys. “If one likes to work with numbers and statistics, one doesn’t have to do it on Wall Street,” OCS Associate Director Susan M. Vacca said. “One could do it in an arts organization managing a budget.”The office’s programming is now grouped into...
...have had the opportunity to interact with a number of students this year,” she wrote in an e-mailed statement. “It’s never as much as I would want, especially as a former faculty member who had the opportunity to interact with many students...
...Even Jaeger admits that the gross ramifications of the financial decline have alerted the union to the absence of University leadership when it comes to thinking beyond calculations and figures. “The main thing [central administrators] really do is set that number,” Jaeger says. “We wish they were doing more than that to really lead or to advise the schools and departments as to how to cope...
...excellence is dependent upon a senseless equation of the way things are with the way things must be. The argument loses its appeal when we realize that our bodies and minds were not created by an intelligent planner but by a biological process that sought to maximize the number of viable offspring, not the amount of human happiness and achievement. We need not be content with what life hands us—in fact, we rarely...