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...services by $7.5 million next year in a move intended to boost the number of females among the ranks of senior faculty, according to a report released June 13 by Evelynn M. Hammonds, the senior vice-provost for Faculty development and diversity.But while professors widely lauded Hammonds for initiating reform of the University’s family policies, some questioned whether the narrow focus fully addressed the problems contributing to a dearth of women in Harvard’s senior ranks.The report, which deals broadly with issues of faculty diversity, is the first to be publicly released by Hammonds?...
...contrast to Menand’s words on this year’s committee, the work of the 2004-2005 committee was often shrouded in secrecy, compromising the process of general education reform, according to some professors. The committee has also been criticized of working independently of broader faculty discussions...
...also a deep believer in the moral power of reform. He was a reform police commissioner in New York City, a reform leader of the Civil Service Commission and a reform Governor of New York. He knew that modern society required honesty, transparency and accountability. His commitment to reform was so great that the New York Republican bosses promoted him for the Vice Presidency simply to get him out of Albany. Little did they know what a reformer they were about to foist on the nation...
...area of reform that Republicans and Democrats alike could learn from was TR's approach to the environment. He understood that conservative and conservation have the same root and he was passionately committed to conserving America's natural resources for future generations. Most Republicans would do well to study his commitment to national parks, national forests, and the management of the natural world. On the other hand, Democrats would do just as well to note that Theodore Roosevelt saw man as part of nature and not as its opponent. As a rancher, big game hunter, fisherman and perhaps the most...
...Faced with today's challenges TR would undoubtedly be advocating a new generation of reform and a new commitment to aggressively winning the future by modernizing our systems, reforming the failures, and boldly fighting for an American definition of a better 21st century...