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...your candidate a respected intellectual? Does your candidate have administrative experience? Can your candidate win the respect of faculty? Is your candidate the next president of Harvard University?Can you guess who?Just five years after members of the governing boards celebrated their selection of Lawrence H. Summers as the University’s president, the guessing game is once again being played at Harvard.The search for Summers’ successor is still in its infancy; its stewards are amassing troves of potential names. And in a months-long search process bound to consume the campus, that long list will...
...before the arrival of Lawrence H. Summers as president of Harvard, and our steady work toward this goal will not be dropped with his departure from that position. This semester, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) implemented several important changes. We delayed the date by which students must select their concentration until the end of their third semester, we established secondary fields (minors), and we revised the writing requirement to make it more unified, to provide opportunities for advanced courses in writing, and to include a component in oral communication. We also introduced an exciting set of new concentrations...
Victoria E. Wobber ’05-’06 is this year’s winner of the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced last week. Wobber, a biological anthropology concentrator, was selected “for her provocative thesis on the evolution of dog cognition and its bearing upon human evolution,” according to the press release. The Fay Prize is awarded to members of Harvard’s graduating class “who have produced the most outstanding work or piece of original research in any field...
When voters go to the polls in eight states on Tuesday, pundits will go to work. From California, where Democrats will select a challenger to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, to Alabama, where voters are expected to overwhelmingly approve a referendum banning gay marriage, these election results will be scrutinzed by political observers for clues as to where the country is heading - and whether the Republicans will face trouble in this November's mid-term elections...
...personal view is that students can play a valuable role in articulating needs and priorities of students that a new president ought to address," Bok wrote. "I believe that students have less to contribute in deciding which candidate to select...