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...ability to synthesize a huge collection of data and make it understandable to a lay audience, as well as a sophisticated audience, is remarkable.” While she has been at Harvard in this position for less than a year—she took up the post on July 1, right before markets began plummeting—Mendillo has no shortage of experience managing the University’s endowment. She spent 15 years at HMC working on nearly every asset class before embarking on her Wellesley hiatus, where she built the school’s investment office...
...Advising Fortnight, and the reduction of funding for meals hosted by freshmen advisers for their advisees.Like OCS, the Advising Programs Office will be moving publications online and cutting funding for food at events.The APO will also lose its current head, Monique Rinere, who will leave for a new post at Columbia in July.The Bureau of Study Counsel, which conducts personal counseling and academic advising and tutoring, is also examining plans to reshape.BSC director Abigail Lipson said “there are many, many things that will have to change,” but declined to give details on the plans...
After running through two resident deans in just two years, Cabot House has appointed writing tutor Jill Constantino to fill the post next year, House Master Jay M. Harris announced on Monday. Constantino—a Cabot dining hall fixture known for her approachable nature and commitment to undergraduate education—will replace Mya M. Mangawang, who served as resident dean for only a year before abruptly announcing her resignation in May. “I hope to spread a little of what makes me happy,” Constantino wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday...
Perhaps I was lucky in that I started out post-graduate life free of a clear path. I graduated from college in 1963, the year that Betty Friedan fired the shot heard around the world and ignited the Feminist Movement—at least in my white, middle class, college-educated world. It is hard for students today to understand how momentous it was to read The Feminine Mystique: how staggering it was to grasp that the path I imagined when I entered college was far too limited. My subsequent path, therefore, was always built upon conflicting expectations about what...
...potential. Created by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the UC’s responsibility is to advocate for students in a complex and decentralized Harvard administration. Even though the mission of the council is straightforward, it has never been easily accomplished. The UC has become a whipping post for students frustrated by the lack of student input in college and university wide decisions. While fingers often point to a hyper-political council or an opaque administration, the council will continue to fall short of its potential until students choose to empower the UC once again...