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With the many thousands of classes Harvard has to offer its wide-eyed incoming students fresh out of high school, a mandatory semester-long writing course may seem less than desirable.
Traditionally, the University has not placed enough emphasis on seeking out diversity—in categories like gender and ethnicity—in candidates for faculty positions, according to Lamont. Consequently, she adds, the list of contenders for the professoriate have tended toward homogeny.
Hoekstra acknowledges that hiring reductions may hamper the changes the University wishes to institute in its faculty, but she holds out hope for an eventual new face of the faculty.
Like Smith’s rhetoric, the actual identity of these so-called “core priorities” have been vague, and budgetary decisions are being fleshed out in direct coordination between the administration and individuals units.
“We did come together,” Kleinman says. “And I’m hoping that in the future we will be out of this extraordinary time and we will return to the situation we’ve had in the past, in which...