Word: reformator
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...That's why we were able to reform a death penalty system that was broken. That's why we were able to give health insurance to children in need. That's why we made the tax system more fair and just for working families, and that's why we passed ethics reforms that the cynics said could never, ever be passed...
...made some progress already. I was proud to help lead the fight in Congress that led to the most sweeping ethics reform since Watergate...
...stickiest situations facing the new president will be redefining her office’s role in relation to the faculty. Harvard’s radically decentralized structure overly empowers its faculties and inhibits reform, encouraging wide disparities in funding among schools, and promoting internecine squabbling over major initiatives. Managing this entrenched academic sphere was the puzzle that cost Summers...
Harvard is, after all, in dire need of reform. The new president cannot afford to sit idle while undergraduate education slides into confusion under the watch of an indecisive Faculty. The most recent and final general education report outlines a range of new distribution requirements, but sorely lacks details for its implementation. After a curricular review process that has taken over four years and the release of a pedagogy report that risks being ignored, the onus is on Faust to ensure that no more time is wasted in fixing Harvard’s broken undergraduate experience...
...These conventions, at the time meant to extol the virtues of these institutions, serve as a reminder of the vanities of the social reform movement...