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...diversity and development is also vying for space to build a new day-care center on the University’s Allston campus.STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANTThe Office of Faculty Development and Diversity collected demographic data that compares Harvard’s schools to each other and the University overall to peer institutions, investigating questions such as the number of tenure offers made to males and females and the time it takes until promotion.In addition, the office used the 50-item survey of junior faculty developed by COACHE that has been used at other universities, like Dartmouth, to measure job satisfaction through opinions...
...second, to require all professors to distribute Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) surveys in their courses, and to publish the results of these surveys in the annual CUE Guide.The current limit of three years for non-tenure track lecturers is unique among virtually all of Harvard’s peer institutions. As a consequence, Harvard—despite its perpetual need for better teachers—is forced to release a number of well-liked and highly effective instructors each year, and yet the Faculty has failed to reconsider its policy on lecturers. Students should not have to study under...
...educate students and freshmen in particular about being cognizant of their own security and privacy. Representatives said they plan to distribute literature, give “safety talks,” and work closely with freshmen-centric organizations such as Crimson Key, the Freshmen Deans Office, and the Peer Advising Program to ensure that the initiative is successfully implemented. “With universal keycard access, our hope is that upperclassmen do not feel unwanted in freshman dorms, and it acts as a community-building initiative by destroying that invisible barrier between the upperclassmen and freshman,” Sarafa...
...role of course evaluations. The Committee on Advising and Counseling also recommended appointing a dean to oversee a new Office of Advising (which the College has been quick to do—naming Monique Rinere to the post last December) and the transformation of the Prefect program into a peer advising program for upperclassmen to advise freshmen. Other committees’ recommendations included expanding financial aid for summer study abroad programs and creating more integrative, introductory science courses in the life and physical sciences. We wholeheartedly endorsed these reforms and await their immediate implementation.The proposals of the Education Policy Committee...
...seem a little too eager to be rejected by their teenage sons and daughters, suggests Miriam Weinstein, a freelance journalist who wrote The Surprising Power of Family Meals. "We've sold ourselves on the idea that teenagers are obviously sick of their families, that they're bonded to their peer group," she says. "We've taken it to an extreme. We've taken it to mean that a teenager has no need for his family. And that's just not true." She scolds parents who blame their kids for undermining mealtime when the adults are co-conspirators. "It's become...