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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to disband Biology in 2006. The Class of ’09 is the last cohort that will have the option of concentrating in the field...
...courses. Far from creating a “Harvard version of RateMyProfessor.com,” as one professor claimed at a Faculty meeting, evaluations are a valuable tool for pedagogical improvement, without which teachers are essentially feedback-blind. Though few professors opt out of such evaluations, leaving the option open at all amounts to providing a sop to professors’ whims and egos. While the Faculty did vote to mandate evaluations of all teaching fellows (TFs)—a critical step in the University’s recognition of the importance of teaching ability among those responsible...
...first step in institutionalizing gender-neutral housing—where students could be placed into mixed gender suites —was taken this year with the announcement that students may mark themselves as transgender on their housing forms, instead of as only male or female. This option will affect entering freshmen and transfer students, as well as all students in next spring’s housing lotteries...
...other two alternatives would mostly be behind-the-scenes changes, with a more basic option entailing maintenance renewal and a middle scenario including an entire overhaul of the major systems in the Houses, like heating and plumbing...
...enormously in power after exercising a very public veto over one Harvard president and wielding private influence to elevate one of its own, Drew G. Faust, to the vacated bully pulpit. The Curricular Review is complete: Undergraduate concentration choice has been moved to the sophomore year; students have the option of taking secondary fields in addition to their concentrations; and a new system of general education, which revamps the Core with an increased focus on contemporary issues, passed the Faculty last month. Yet the road to where we are today has left Harvard and the Faculty deeply scarred...