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...Since Summers??€™ departure, the University has moved in that direction. While the President’s Office paid for last year’s spring concert, featuring the piano-pop virtuoso Ben Folds, the College footed the bill for this spring’s Third Eye Blind performance. Both events attracted thousands of undergraduates to the Yard...
...year. We hope that Faust and Smith do not allow the report to gather dust on a shelf and instead make it a guiding document for their tenures.The two should also take a page from former FAS Dean William C. Kirby and former University President Lawrence H. Summers??€™ playbook in making the improvement of student life at Harvard College a priority. The FAS dean in particular has an oft-unrecognized influence over the undergraduate experience as the final authority on the funding of student initiatives. Under interim Dean Jeremy R. Knowles—and with last year?...
...sophomore year, Shleifer made an appointment with Lawrence H. Summers??€”who had managed to become an assistant professor at MIT while still studying for his PhD at Harvard—to point out mistakes in a paper Summers had written...
...schedule—two four-month semesters, with a ‘J-term’ in between. The new calendar would begin after Labor Day and would end in late May, making it slightly longer than the current academic year. But in the last two years of Summers??€™ tenure, the conversation on calendar reform stalled as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences tackled the general education portion of the curricular review...
...This is the second time in two years that faculty members anticipate the appointment of a permanent dean. In the wake of Kirby’s January 2006 forced resignation—an event that contributed to Summers??€™s fall weeks later—professors assisting in the search for Kirby’s replacement wanted a long-lasting leader who could bring a renewed vision to the office...