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...faculty. Other schools also use committees of outside experts in the tenure process but do not have Harvard’s notorious reputation. Harvard’s upper echelon of professors and administrators must make a conscious effort to put a greater weight on teaching ability and to consciously reach out to junior faculty.There is also the simple problem of space. There are a limited number of tenured professorships, many of which are held by aging faculty who remain in place indefinitely. Harvard might consider a solution in place at a variety of other schools—a mandatory retirement...
...more cookies and candy than hard-edged academic advice.The truth is that the responsibility implicitly associated with academic advising is enormous. There is no comp process that allows for slow learning through mistakes and success. The seemingly unimportant choices these freshmen make could eventually be as far reaching as determining a career on Capitol Hill or one distributing political flyers on Beacon Hill—choices that weigh heavily on the advice and support of their advisers.BIG BROTHER, BIG SISTERAccording to the creators of the Peer Advising program, it was hardly the intention to endow these fellows with so much...
...sons and daughters would never come back. Or when he said of the dead, "Now they're gone." At that, the husband leaned hard onto his fist. "A parent's love is never far from a child," the President said and they both broke down, then sat back up. "Reach out to help those who have lost a son or daughter," he said. And they sobbed...
...English professor Lucinda Roy had "informally shared her concerns" about Cho's writing but had not filed an official report. Cho's writings "did not express any threatening intentions or allude to any criminal activity ... No criminal violation had taken place," Flinchum said. "Dr. Roy chose to reach out to this student out of concern...
...especially tuned in to the Columbine-Littleton community these days. But when heard the news about Virginia Tech, he says, he felt a strong compulsion to reach out. His mother suggested that he blog something on the Internet, which he intends...