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...Ernest R. May, a genial professor who led Harvard College with collectedness and a sense of diplomacy and stood at the forefront of the study of U.S. foreign relations over his 55 years at Harvard, died Monday from complications following surgery. He was 80.May left his mark on the University, filling a wide array of roles, including dean of the College, associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and director of the Institute of Politics. “There are a small number of people at Harvard who really step up through genuine belief in the institution...
...students prepare readings for weekly sections in many classes. But not all professors are optimistic that technology alone will be able to carry the curriculum. “It’s not a magic bullet,” former Dean of the College and Computer Science Professor Harry R. Lewis ’68 says of the use of technology in the classroom. TRANSFORMING INTO SOMETHING ‘TRANSFORMATIVE’ The Gen Ed committee dedicated its first few months to trying to define what kinds of classes would fit into each of the eight categories mandated...
...Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—had approved a calendar modeled on the Verba committee’s initial suggested schedule.But in August 2007, just months after Bok’s announcement, Gross stepped down as dean of the College. David R. Pilbeam served as acting dean until Evelynn M. Hammonds took over in June 2008.During this time, though the administration never formally announced the prospect of structured January programming, undergraduates largely assumed that programs like those in the Conley proposals would come to fruition as soon as the calendar shifted...
...goals.“I think the Allston project was a combination of genuine ambition for Harvard to remain at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs and for President Summers to have created something for which he would be remembered,” says former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68. “To go out and borrow money on buildings, on top of [a troubled budget] without having a plan for raising the funds—credible, realistic plans for building—was a mistake in my view.” Others defend...
...Undergraduate Council perhaps offers at least an equally compelling proof of Neustadt’s thesis.Persuasiveness was a trait clearly prized by last year’s UC leader Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, a habitual social networker among undergraduates, faculty, and administrators.But for Andrea R. Flores ’10, who succeeded Sundquist as the UC’s executive last semester, that power appears to have come far less easily—both in University Hall and on the Council.It’s partly personality.Sundquist was a social butterfly (Assistant Dean of the College Paul...