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...ties to indigenous tribes—blacks who have left the inner-city will be talking about how much black blood they have,” he added. Evelynn M. Hammonds, a history of science professor who trained as a physicist and electrical engineer, said that she and her peer group of African-American science scholars “encountered far far more barriers than we ever thought existed.” Hammonds—who is Harvard’s senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, a post that puts her in charge of recruiting more female...
...university computer science department. That's the way Rick Rashid, the senior VP in charge who was a professor at Carnegie Mellon, designed it . "For me basic research has to be first and foremost about moving the state of the art forward in computer science. We publish in peer reviewed journals just like professors so that our research is subject to the same purity of process that a university would have," says Rashid. "It's not about doing things that are necessarily going to turn into products-product groups do a pretty good job of that. Researchers are about trying...
...functions of social and academic advising into one comprehensive program. Dividing the academic and social realms of advising will confuse freshmen and duplicate the shortcomings of the Prefect Program in what will inevitably become a second underutilized and ill-defined institution. Harvard freshmen deserve better. They deserve empowered peer advisors, charged with the mission of providing direction to freshmen who seek it out for all aspects of the complex, interweaving demands of exploring Harvard for the first time. Those who argue that freshmen advising is too complex or too large a task to saddle upon those currently involved in planning...
...academic advisor and social coordinator will not be an improvement on the current structure, but will instead lead to superficial academic advice and will impair the progress prefects have made in building a sense of community in freshman dormitories. Rather, freshmen will be best served by a separate peer advising program in addition to a modified prefect program.When prefects do their job, they are a font of knowledge on the House system, extracurricular activities, and College life in general. Effective prefects assist, on an informal level, in moderating small disputes between roommates and advising on blocking issues. Of course, they...
...private colleges. Last year, a subcommittee was convened to address College recognition of student groups and the issue of student group proliferation. But according to Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, the subcommittee found Harvard was “not out of line” with its peer institutions in this respect, so no changes were recommended. Yesterday, members discussed potential reasons for the increase in the number of student groups in recent years. One possible explanation raised at the meeting was that faculty members have been willing to sign up as advisers for a number of student...