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Four years after the curricular review began, the final version of the proposed general education legislation will come before professors at a meeting of the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences next week. But even with a final vote in sight, professors still disagreed yesterday over the place of advanced departmental courses in the new program. Interim Dean of the Faculty David Pilbeam, who has stepped in for Dean Jeremy R. Knowles as Knowles battles prostate cancer, expressed concern yesterday that the Faculty might fail to see the review through to completion. “We are running very close...
...group of academic and non-profit institutions—including Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the MacArthur Foundation—will announce the launch of a major online peer-reviewed database of species today. The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a project long supported by Harvard’s Pellegrino University Professor Edward O. Wilson, aims to compile information on over 1.8 million species and make it universally accessible free of charge, according to Laura Cinnamon, a spokeswoman for the project. Harvard has already promised over $5 million, which will go towards education, outreach, and the creation of a digital...
...which our vendors organize their business. The situation of service employees working on our campus, however, raises a distinctive set of issues that was carefully considered by a committee of eleven faculty members, four students, three union representatives, and two administrators in 2001. The committee’s review resulted in a set of comprehensive recommendations requiring service vendors to pay wages and to provide benefits (including health insurance, retirement, and paid time off) that are at least comparable to those that the University pays its unionized employees in similar positions. These recommendations have since been fully implemented through...
...that they respond within a week. Students at last night’s meeting said they would seek to gain student representation on the Administrative Board, the 35-member committee that examines undergraduate cases of academic and disciplinary misconduct. Gross said last month that he is considering undertaking a review of the Ad Board’s procedures next fall and that students may serve on the committee that will carry out the review. Students present last night also said that undergraduates should have formal input into contract decisions that directly affect them. This week, the College announced that...