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After the recession, current University President Drew G. Faust argued for investment in research as a “down payment on future innovation in Congress’s recovery package,” a push for research funding for Harvard that was successful. Faust’s dealings with a large number of federal officials—including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, other House leaders, Senator Kerry himself, Senator Charles E. Grassley, and newly elected Mass. Senator Scott P. Brown—are also reminiscent of Bok’s interactions with Senator Kerry and former Senator Kennedy...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Resists Reagan’s ’85 Budget | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...There always has been pressure for departments that have a large influx of students to have more faculty,” says Wilt Idema, chair of East Asian languages and civilizations, which had 40 concentrators in 2008. “If I were the chair of economics, I would push my dean to have more faculty...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Casting Numbers Aside | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...been on the books for quite a while. It just needed the right definition and the right push at the right moment,” said Witzel, who joined the department in 1986 and served as chair in the early 1990s...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Sanskrit Dept. To Change Name, in Pursuit of Interdisciplinary Work | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...policy will push centers to “not just be a faculty bastion, a little enclave away from the University,” he said...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Centralization of FAS | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...Faust, as she herself has said, has many years ahead of her to set a vision that will likely not be limited by a shrinking endowment, but directed by the themes she wants to push...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: A Blank Slate | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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