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Faculty of Arts and Sciences have created new student advisory boards for each of the three FAS divisions, UC President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 announced Monday. The three advisory boards—for the arts and humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences??€”will meet with their corresponding divisional deans for lunch two to three times per semester starting this fall. They will discuss issues like advising, curriculum, senior theses, and tutorials. Stephen Kosslyn, a psychology professor and the dean of social science, said he approached the Undergraduate Council about creating advisory boards this summer...
...first meeting of the 2008-2009 academic year, the Faculty Council—the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences??€”introduced its five new members...
Government professor Lisa L. Martin, who served as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences??€™s first diversity dean and chair of the Standing Committee on Women, has left Harvard for the University of Wisconsin at Madison, criticizing Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith’s commitment to hiring minority and female professors on her way out.As a leader of female and minority recruitment, Martin compiled and released two reports on hiring. Her first report raised alarm when it found that the female tenure rate in 2005-2006 had fallen to 21 percent—half...
...easy, of course, to get caught up in the marvels of engineering and its transformative impact. After all, the launch of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) last September was intended to celebrate Harvard’s recognition of the importance of engineering and applied sciences??€”from advancing knowledge to meeting human needs to enhancing prosperity to ensuring sustainability...
...last fall, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan issued a statement explaining that because 15 percent of Harvard’s operating budget comes from federal funds—most of it to Harvard Medical School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences??€”the Law School would make an exception to its non-discrimination policy...