Word: retreated
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...meeting also marked the first, intensive University-wide effort to look specifically at interfaculty programs that will be part of the campaign. Faculty experts came to brief officials at the retreat on the environment, children and education, health care, the brain and behavior and ethics...
Rudenstine briefed the Board of Overseers onacademic and campaign plans over the weekend. OnMonday, he met with the Harvard Corporation andtold them the results of the retreat...
Perhaps the key issue on the agenda at the retreat, though, will be how much Harvard wants to raise for an new central fund. The fund will serve as a "safety net" for the poorer graduate schools, will support centralized coordination of interfaculty programs and will include "flexible money for the future," Green said...
Green said he expects the retreat to yield "a reasonably solid agreement" on the central fund...
Events should be planned that focus on Harvard's diversity. The recently released federal study "Campus Tension in Massachusetts: Searching for Solutions in the 90s" suggests that "structured" events work best to create dialogue between minority groups. While Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III's retreat for minority leaders worked well at the start of this academic year, the idea needs to be expanded to include events that bring together all students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds and not just their leaders...