Word: outreaching
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...work. “The PBH drive is an enormous and vital part of our holiday toy drive,” Young said. Young, the deputy director of communication coordination at ABCD, got his social service roots at Harvard College. “I did an outreach to community schools program with PBH,” he said, explaining that the drive did not exist in his years as an undergraduate. Today, his work at ABCD affects over 3,500 low-income families or individuals in Boston. “PBH makes it possible for some children...
...Harvard student life. Both are enthusiastic members of campus student groups, as well as Peer Advising Fellows. Matt is also a Dorm Crew captain and a proud participant in Mather intramural sports. In fact, he spent this past semester recruiting a more diverse set of UC candidates. Following the outreach to freshmen women that Matt and current president Ryan Petersen organized this fall, there are now nearly twice as many women on the UC as there were last year...
...Faculty. Further, it is far preferable to have students sitting on the committee itself than to have a committee of professors seeking out student opinion. Only by having actual student participation can the student perspective have an equal voice at the table, an effect that no amount of outreach by professors can reproduce. Furthermore, outreach by professors is by no means guaranteed—particularly on committees where Faculty members are faceless—and often falls short of even the best intentions. This is why students have, in recent years, slowly gained voices on important committees across the Faculty...
...cold outside, and people had class. It’s very hard to convince Harvard students to leave campus sometimes. And that was one of the challenges we ran into.”After his one semester tenure had finished, the company decided to temporarily close its campus outreach program in order to better restructure and streamline its operations. And in the end, Manglani is skeptical as to how effective campus rep programs like Kiehl’s can be. “I go back and forth on this,” he says. “The objective...
...example of Harvard’s foray into the digital realm. The project was started in 2002 and serves a community much broader than Harvard’s own. Sidney Verba ’53, the former director of the Harvard University Library, characterizes its mission as an outreach effort: “What we’re trying to do is use digitization to make a large part of the collection...publicly available to everybody, so that people at colleges not as well endowed with research materials, [and] people all over—whether they?...