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...even at the end of his 20-year term, Bok was not sure that Harvard College was any more economically diverse than it had been at the beginning. This was not lost on Lawrence H. Summers, who in 2001 became Harvard’s 27th president. Efforts to recruit minorities made Harvard’s undergraduate student body more racially diverse, but aside from the institution of need-blind admissions, no similar steps had been taken to diversify along economic lines—a problem not unique to Harvard, according to Summers. “If you look across...
...they have new laws that are at times more restrictive.” In places without legislation in place, stem cell research is privately funded and can be conducted through guidelines established by the individual scientific institutions. Harvard officials said the Stem Cell Institute’s struggle to recruit donors may be an argument for reviewing the 2005 law. “We now have two years of experience living under the law,” Casey said. He added that the University plans to share data about the obstacles faced by Eggan and his colleagues with legislators...
...field longer and often already have tenure at other universities. The timing of tenure review can also be problematic for junior faculty in terms of their personal lives. “For the intellectual vitality of the University, I think it’s very good to recruit young faculty,” says Lisa L. Martin, senior advisor to the dean of FAS. At 34, Martin was one of the youngest women to be offered tenure at Harvard in 1996. “But I think that it does have potentially negative consequences for women in particular because about...
...measure was intended to help assuage the worries of a strained junior faculty. "Now when people are hired at the junior level, they’re on a path that guarantees at couldn’t recruit the strongest junior faculty if it was widely thought that they had no chance for tenure,” says Casey, although he adds that “now we’re much more overt about...
...partial list of Core courses that will count for Gen Ed credit, Harris said. Using the guidelines set by the Gen Ed legislation passed in May, the committee has full discretion to decide which Core courses will make the cut under Gen Ed.The committee is also actively working to recruit departmental and newly created courses for each of the eight Gen Ed required categories: “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding,” “Culture and Belief,” “Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning,” “Ethical Reasoning...