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...Knowles provided to continue ongoing academic initiatives and pursue new priorities that will benefit undergraduate education. Summers has already said that he intends to place great emphasis on undergraduates, and his next dean of the Faculty should share this priority. To this end, reforming Harvard’s sub-par advising system must be one of the new dean’s prime objectives...
...combination of declining oil market share and exploding population has led per capita GDP to decline tremendously in Saudi Arabia over the last decade and a half. According to a recent New York Times article, per capita income has fallen from $28,000 in the early 1980s, on par with the United States, to under $7,000 today. But these still respectable figures mask extreme inequality. Much of the oil money is pilfered by the extravagant and rapidly growing—7,000 princes and counting—royal family...
Although he said Harvard is on par with other schools in awarding 50 percent A and A- grades, Summers said he is particularly concerned with honors inflation. The College awarded honors degrees to more than 90 percent of graduates last year...
...need to get two or three of [our mile-runners] in the high fours,” he said. “They know their work’s cut out for them. If we want to stay on par placewise [overall], we have to improve in those areas...
Summers first indicated his plans to improve graduate student aid during his inaugural address. In subsequent speeches and interviews, the president expanded upon his hopes to bring the level of graduate student aid up to par with aid given to undergraduates. The University has begun preliminary studies by compiling data on current aid at the various graduate schools to document the problem of unmet need and to develop a comprehensive plan to address financial need at Harvard...