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...resources. Others, such as the formation of a more robust advising system, have costs that any dean of the faculty would be willing to assume. In fact, we have already moved in that direction by hiring an associate dean of advising programs and have budgeted funds to support peer advising of freshmen for next year...
...ACSR is a 12-person panel of students, faculty, and alumni that makes recommendations to the Harvard Corporation on ethical issues surrounding Harvard’s investments. However, Harvard has yet to divest from other Sudan-linked companies remaining in its portfolio. Some of Harvard’s peer institutions have already taken the lead in divesting entirely from firms with ties to the Sudanese government. In June 2005, Stanford announced its decision to sell all its direct stakes in corporations linked to the Sudanese government, including PetroChina and Sinopec. Amherst College made a similar decision to divest from...
...tendency to concentrate on decisions only shortly before their deadlines. It is this pressure that incentivizes decision-making and prioritizes concentration consideration over less important, if more immediate, matters. More importantly, the current schedule gives freshmen access to a slate of concentration advising and, within concentrations that facilitate it, peer advising resources that can further assist students in shaping their courses of study. Freshman advising does little to expose students to various concentration options, and forcing students to consult various concentration advisors before the winter snow has melted benefits students...
...Schickler said Harvard has a problem attracting new American politics faculty because of competition from peer institutions. The Government department has “relied a lot on hiring senior people away from other institutions,” he said...
...plans to form a committee on housing policies. “A committee comprised of House masters, staff, and students will be convened in late spring to discuss Harvard’s policy in light of the needs of our student population and in the context of what our peer institutions are doing related to gender-neutral housing,” she writes in an e-mail to FM. Passing the TimeFew signs in the Mather suite hint at a male presence. The most obvious indication of Magnuson is, funnily enough, in the bathroom—a poem he posted...