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Last September, Walter Professor of Cell Biology Marc W. Kirschner, Professor Joseph B. Martin, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Provost Stephen E. Hyman helped circulate a mass petition signed by 15,000 scientists who agreed to publish their work only in journals that would grant free online access to their archives after a six-month embargo...
...Provost Steven E. Hyman and a group of professors have also initiated discussion recently about a center to study globalization and immigration—but students said yesterday they were concerned that Latino studies would “slip through the cracks...
...wake of recent commitments to diversity by both University President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven E. Hyman, many students would like to see progress in the form of a strong and formal commitment to ethnic studies. It is unfair that students currently interested in ethnic studies have no tutorials to learn its methodology, no coordinated advising, no set curriculum and a limited selection of disconnected courses. To address these problems, several principal changes must be made. The ad-hoc Committee on Ethnic Studies should be elevated to a standing committee. A Latino and Latin American Studies, Native-American studies...
...legitimate field of intellectual inquiry. The critical analysis of gender and sexuality is a topic that is potentially of great interest to all students, no matter how they define themselves. Such possibilities currently exist for students at other institutions: at Yale, for instance, a standing committee appointed by the provost organizes offerings in gay and lesbian studies; at the University of California, Berkeley, undergraduates can minor in LGBT studies. Harvard offers little in the way of courses or guidance for students with interests in the history and theory of sexuality...
...impetus for the “Caring in the Community” project originally came from a December 1999 report highly critical of the inadequacy in mental health services available to Harvard students. That report was issued by a special committee established by former Provost Harvey V. Fineberg...