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...including the creation of a senior vice-provost position for diversity and faculty development and the recommendation of programs to help female faculty members balance work and family obligations—faculty members and outside experts say that Harvard has simply aligned itself with, rather than surpassed, peer institutions...
...building is part of an effort by the University to house 50 percent of its graduate students by 2011 in order to stay competitive with peer institutions...
...Quite frankly, for many of my colleagues, it is too little, too late,” Shaw writes in an e-mail. “It is notable that most of our peer institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania...have long had more impressive records on the hiring, promotion, and intellectual support of women scholars than has Harvard...
...years, various curricular review committees have considered such major changes as a shift to Yale-style housing—in which freshmen would be matched with an upperclass House from the start—a move to push back concentration choice to sophomore year, and calls for more formal peer and faculty advising...
Shifting roles for freshman proctors and House staff may go hand-in-hand with efforts at integrating freshmen and upperclassmen, primarily through peer advising and College-sponsored social activities...