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...Harvard. Just as importantly, the report identified the problem as 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...
...September, the College became the first among peer institutions to end its early admissions program, arguing that the system “advantaged the advantaged” and needlessly stressed high school seniors by leading them to start the application process prematurely...
Over the past year, a committee of professors has met regularly to review the University’s tech transfer policies and systematically compare them to peer institutions. That committee recently presented its recommendations to Provost Hyman and President-elect Drew G. Faust...
...will continue to address the issue of college admissions reform. As the first of our peer institutions to adopt the Common Application, we have tried to make the application process itself less cumbersome. And in a paper first written in 2000 and recently revised, “Time Out or Burn Out for the Next Generation” (which can be found at http://www. admissions.college.harvard.edu/prospective/applying/time_off/index.html), we have expressed our concern about the increasing danger of “burnout” for many students. We hope the end of early admission will be of some help in this...
...breaking research by Freed Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 and Larsen Professor of Public Policy Christopher N. Avery ’88, which will allow us to identify unusually promising students from communities that rarely or never send applicants to the College or its peer institutions...