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With the College’s massive curricular review now in the rearview mirror, four individual departments conducted academic overhauls of their own late this year, revamping their concentration requirements to appeal to a wider variety of students.English, Classics, Music, and Astronomy modified their undergraduate programs this past year to give their concentrators greater flexibility and more accessible options.Many departments say that they wanted to de-emphasize preparing their concentrators for future academic work in the field, prioritizing a compelling introduction to the subject matter instead.“We did this because we didn’t think...
...This is the man who, upon being named dean, needed multiple meetings with his predecessor David R. Pilbeam to review a sheet of paper with a list of items Pilbeam thought would require particular attention. But Smith didn’t want the crash course in deanship to stop there...
...Although every budgetary plan eventually “rolls up” to Smith’s office for final review, his purview is much too vast to allow much attention to details. “I did not go through all the different proposals from all the different units. That would be crazy,” Smith said in an interview last week, about proposals for cuts sent in by units over the past few months. Instead, he focuses on recommendations flagged as “affecting multiple units” or with far-reaching consequences...
...year later, this fiery dialogue has cooled as the students wait for the release of recommendations from the Medical School’s 19-member conflict of interest review committee. In six weeks, the waiting ends, and the students will have to recalibrate their stances to a new reality...
Tenure at Harvard requires, above all else, copious publication. The peer-review process in scholarly journals and university presses subjects one’s work to harsh criticism by one’s intellectual rivals and demands punctilious caution in the handling of evidence and logic. The best way to guarantee success is to choose a specialty where mastering the entire literature is feasible and where one has few rivals. Such pursuit of expertise can generate finely tuned knowledge, but it can also generate territorialism and stifle debate. For example, another faculty resident in Leverett House in 1997-98 (when...