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...stemming from Harvard’s institutional priorities and culture and recommended 18 concrete changes to begin to fix the problem. Three of these changes—monetary incentives for top-notch teaching, the creation of a culture of peer evaluation, and making course evaluations mandatory—are particularly important. Beyond those changes, we hope that teaching is made a more important part of tenure decisions, a critical step for changing the culture of teaching at an institution where so much is driven by career advancement. We also hope that FAS considers the possibility of expanding the number...
...Harvard and subsequently began covering the Faculty for The Crimson, it was a time of great expectations for Harvard’s flagship faculty. It had, for the first time in nearly three decades, launched a comprehensive effort to completely revamp undergraduate education at Harvard. Meanwhile FAS, and in particular the sciences, promised to be at the center of the University’s multi-billion dollar campus expansion across the Charles River into Allston, for which plans—and donors—were being lined...
...characterized by internal politics and turf wars rather than a communal quest for the best curriculum. Discussions were put on hold for months at a time during the winters of 2005 and 2006, while the Faculty lambasted Summers and his leadership style. When the review—and in particular its centerpiece, the General Education requirement—was on the agenda, discussion was characterized both in committee and among the full Faculty by a striking inability to work together and agree on any meaningful proposals...
...Provost Steven E. Hyman, who will serve as Faust’s right-hand man for at least the next year, has said that in particular, the momentum of the 20-year-old Allston project is independent of any individual leaders...
...today are extraordinarily challenging. They include the correct balance among the sciences, humanities, and social sciences; the relationship between academia and the world at large; the role of the new media and its implications for traditional academic studies; and the composition of a satisfactory liberal arts education. Harvard, in particular, faces additional challenges in the months and years ahead, such as realizing Allston’s potential for scientific and other goals, determining the proper relationship with junior faculty, balancing the roles of individuals, centers, and departments, negotiating the inclusion of interdisciplinary studies and the various schools in research...