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Allston is the hope and promise of Harvard’s long-term future. Getting it right will shape the character of the University for generations. But we could easily get it wrong...
...campus in Allston to uniting a balkanized university to implementing an uninspiring new curriculum—are of an entirely different nature and order of magnitude from anything she has previously faced. How she handles those challenges, how she defines her own role, and what she prioritizes will shape Harvard for years to come.Harvard is at a crossroads. After years of stagnancy, former University President Lawrence H. Summers laid out an audacious and inspiring vision for the future only to be ousted by a Faculty averse to change and offended by his brusque management style. For the past year, interim...
...Squirelled away in Loeb House, the onetime president’s mansion now home to the University’s governing boards, Bok made the call, choosing the six professors that would shape the new face of undergraduate education. Though Kirby made the official appointment, it was Bok’s invisible hand—as the interim president acknowledged only recently—that shaped the review’s new beginning...
...with any blank tableau, Harvard’s first few brushstrokes in Allston, which have been sketched this year, will be the bold outlines for the entire project and shape the experience of Harvard students and faculty and residents of Allston for decades, if not centuries, to come.Harvard has a vision for Allston as an integrated campus that fosters interdisciplinary academics and shares its resources with the community. It is a promising one to which Harvard should adhere. Yet within that overall framework, which Harvard’s Allston Development Group set forth in a master plan in January...
...created here have only just begun. Even the best of friends made at Harvard have only had four years to get to know each other. And although distance will widen, these friends, these relationships now have decades instead of semesters to grow. We have an opportunity to shape how our years at Harvard affect the rest of our lives, socially, personally, and professionally. We can make this time even more valuable by maintaining the relationships we’ve made here and taking to heart all of the lessons we have learned, most of which have not been...