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...paying attention to the search for his successor? “Not very closely,” he said. Summers—whose tenure is set to be the shortest of any Harvard president since the Civil War—said he is most proud of his efforts to revamp undergraduate education, boost science and interdisciplinary initiatives, and expand financial aid to more students. But he was reluctant to predict his legacy as Harvard’s 27th president. “I think it’s for others to judge,” he said...
...attract a student audience, WHRB would have to completely revamp its programming. But to change its programming would mean financial catastrophe for the station...
...There is a need for more child-care places, concedes Prime Minister John Howard - particularly in after-school care. But "these generalized calls for a complete revamp of the system - well, I think the present system works reasonably well," he tells Time. "Some people have unreasonable expectations. There are some people out there who basically think that child care shouldn't cost them anything." Howard points out that his government's 30% rebate on child-care fees - introduced in 2004 but paid for the first time only this year - offers parents up to $A4,000 per child each year. Making...
During his talk, Gross also trumpeted the College’s plan to revamp the advising program and recruit a large group of upperclassmen peer advisers to work with the non-residential advisers in all concentrations...
...great because we admit great students, not because we give them a great faculty-led education. Of course, the students know this too, explaining why Harvard students rate their educational experience less positively than the students at almost all of our peer institutions. Summers led the charge to revamp the curriculum and improve the quality of undergraduate life. He wanted to hold faculty accountable for their teaching. Some faculty faulted him for playing too central a role in the curricular review, and some faculty resented being told (fairly or unfairly) that they weren’t living up to Summers?...