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...Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who teaches a class on Harvard’s history, says that he believes that faculty members should have been consulted more widely before the administrative overhaul was undertaken...
...crucial element of the overhaul has been financial. The palace now directly spends a lot of the money that different government departments used to spend on its behalf, which has allowed it to take control over its own operations, establish budgets and cut costs that might otherwise have continued on autopilot. (One example: the certificates people receive when they obtain honors are now generated by computer rather than calligrapher, saving $27 approximately 5,000 times a year.) There's more public disclosure too, in particular an annual financial report launched at a press conference and published on the Web. Last...
...next fall, freshmen will receive academic advice from upperclassmen who will also fulfill the function of prefects, Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique M. Rinere announced yesterday in a press release. The changes come at the forefront of an overhaul of the advising system as recommended in the ongoing curricular review. The peer advising fellows will receive a stipend of $1000 for the academic year, the press release said. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors can apply to be among the College’s first 180 peer advising fellows. The College administration has said it will fund the program from...
...Browne, who did not respond to several requests for comment, will help lead the new advising center at BC under his old boss, former Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans. Nathans was forced from her post last year as part of an overhaul of the College administration’s structure, which began...
Among insiders, it's being called "the reboot." Although President George W. Bush stuck close to home when he chose Budget Director Josh Bolten to succeed chief of staff Andrew H. Card Jr. last week, officials consulted by the White House said the overhaul will be more consequential than it looked at first. These officials said Bolten, who comes on board April 15, plans to put some new faces in front of the public and on Capitol Hill. Bush, who retired to his Texas ranch for the weekend after a summit in Cancún, did not want it to appear that...