Word: pushed
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...months, President-elect Drew G. Faust has steered clear of making precise commitments to improving student life, preferring to focus on reforms to undergraduate education instead. FAS administrators have taken a similar tack, arguing that it is time to follow several big-ticket social initiatives with a costly push to modernize the curriculum...
Faust’s recent decision to appoint Michael D. Smith, who has, in her words, “been so involved” in life outside the classroom, to the FAS deanship seems to indicate a push to increase the dean’s role in undergraduate life. Smith is chair of the Faculty Standing Committee on Athletics Sports at Harvard and worked on a review of life in Cabot House...
...push for alumni to give back to Harvard through the HCF begins before seniors graduate, and the solicitations only increase in frequency and intensity as the years pass. They are usually quite successful; the money gained from the generosity of Harvard alumni—around $80 million per year to the HCF alone—is the fuel that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) requires to keep running...
...capital campaign to ensure Harvard’s continued financial security amid a period of furious expansion. She must assemble and supervise a team of administrators and deans who will share in her vision. And she must protect academic freedom in the face of political hurricanes while continuing to push for excellence in all fields, in both teaching and research. Externally, she has a responsibility use her bully pulpit and moral authority—both as president of Harvard and as one of the most prominent women in America—to the fullest extent.At the same time, Faust must...
...damaging. They say unilateral agreements between the U.S. on the one hand and Poland and Czech Republic on the other cause friction with other European countries and undermine support for missile defense. And they argue that Bush's insistence on pursuing deployment agreements now shows that the current push is less about the imminent threat than it is about his legacy. "Bush wants to make an irreversible move forward before he leaves office," says Charles Kupchan of the Council on Foreign Relations. "He wants this to be in train even if not completely deployed...