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...addition to Verba, the faculty advisory committee includes four other members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences??the most of any single school. In February, University President Lawrence H. Summers cited an inability to repair relations with “segments” of that school’s faculty as the chief reason for his resignation. And some professors at the University's other schools have expressed worries that the search committee may cave to Faculty clout in selecting Harvard's next leader...
...Sylvester ’04 falsified aspects of a Village Voice article, “Do You Wanna Kiss Me?”; Eugene M. Plotkin ’00 was indicted for a $6.2 million insider trading fiasco at Goldman Sachs.These scandals, and the Faculty of Arts & Sciences?? ousting of President Lawrence H. Summers, have made 2006 a nightmarish year for Harvard’s public relations. Yet, inevitably, 20,000 over-achieving high school seniors will try to climb into our Ivy Tower next winter, U.S. World & News Report’s ritual crowning of Harvard...
Potential life sciences concentrators in the Class of 2010 may face a completely new array of choices when they arrive on campus next fall. Voting unanimously, the Faculty Council—the highest governing board of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences??approved a restructuring of life sciences concentrations yesterday that would eliminate biology in favor of a cluster of smaller, more specialized departments. The motion, put forward by Professor of Anthropology Daniel E. Lieberman, still awaits approval from the full Faculty before any changes can be implemented and could be passed as early as next week...
...rants. Where Brooks stumbled is somewhere a large chunk of academia also seems to be stumbling: study abroad. The idea of “study abroad” is similar to those tired suggestions of “interdisciplinary” courses or courses in the “sciences?? that are often bandied about as a panacea for the ills of American higher education. I, like most people at Harvard, know numerous people that have studied abroad—though usually only for a semester, merely half the length Brooks recommends for a properly...
Fitzsimmons also said that he doubts that the recent turmoil at the University’s highest ranks—including the resignation of its president and the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences??will affect the College’s yield...