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Advisers expect undergraduates to personally seek them out, and students say they feel alienated from advising resources—a sharp contrast to the advising system’s mission as expressed by economics undergraduate program administrator Emily R. Neill, who oversees the administration of the advising program...
...newest advising reform—the recruitment of a group of rising juniors and seniors to serve as peer concentration counselors (PCCs)—will help the department further develop a sense of community among concentrators and advisers, administrators say...
...That’s about a 9 percent increase at a time when we’re all trying very hard to keep our operational budget level,” Donahue said. “I will say we’ve certainly had to come up with a lot of numbers behind the scenes and predict what we think our needs are for the next year...
These days, everyone is saying it—Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn say it, The Nike Foundation’s “Girl Effect” campaign says it, Goldman Sachs’ “10,000 Women” initiative says it: Educational initiatives for girls in the third world are the key to a successful international development strategy. As Harvard University President Emeritus Lawrence H. Summers observed years ago in a speech to a Development Economics Seminar at the World Bank, “When one takes into account all its benefits, educating girls...
Although interdisciplinary thinking can drive productive and broad discourse between, say, the sciences and the humanities, what of the insights gained at the interface of different fields within the domain of the natural sciences? The mining of such productive friction is a hallmark of science today. Cell biologists collaborate with engineers to understand how physical forces shape developing tissues. Chemists collaborate with biologists to unlock the remarkable chemistry used by microbes to degrade environmental toxins. And computer scientists collaborate with structural biologists to harness the properties of biological macromolecules to re-imagine the computer chip. So why is it that...