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...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...
...undergraduates selected by Rinere in consultation with the Student Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council. All nine members of the prefect board invited by Rinere have agreed to join. The Prefect Board, Freshman Deans Office, and Advising Programs Office will form a partnership to create the new peer advising program that will ultimately replace the current prefect system, Rinere wrote yesterday. Gouinlock said that at a meeting with the prefect board Sunday night, Rinere had originally told those in attendance that the program was going to be disbanded because of a decision passed down by top members of the College...
...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...
...will no longer exist in its present form but will be “morphed into something else,” Rinere said. Rinere, who is just six days into her new post after arriving at Harvard from Princeton University, said the Prefect Program may be replaced with a peer advising system that matches upperclassmen with incoming freshmen the summer before they enter the College. Last night, members of the board of the Prefect Program issued an e-mail statement to prefects, proctors, and some freshmen declaring that they now harbored “serious concerns about the future...
During his talk, Gross also trumpeted the College’s plan to revamp the advising program and recruit a large group of upperclassmen peer advisers to work with the non-residential advisers in all concentrations...