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...Those who enjoy great privileges also have great responsibilities, and that means making great sacrifices for the common good when circumstances require it,” wrote public policy and history and literature lecturer Timothy P. McCarthy in an e-mailed statement last month in support of voluntary paycuts among faculty. “This is one of those circumstances.” “We are a community here at Harvard—or at least we should be—and now is the time for all of us to act like it,” McCarthy...
When former University President Lawrence H. Summers formally announced his resignation in 2006, several of his most loyal alumni supporters voiced their displeasure at his ouster with the largely symbolic threat of withholding all future donations.James B. Davis ’75 called it a “disgrace.”“So be it,” Richard A. Holt ’64 penned in an unpublished letter to The Crimson in 2006. “Henceforth, when the alumni fund solicitors call, I shall not donate so much as a penny to this shallow...
...fully formed from Zeus’ head,” she says. And indeed, Gen Ed has already begun to be faced with the questions that the conceptual outline of the program never had to address. LITTLE VENTURE CAPITALThe problem of resources—both in terms of financial support and faculty time—looms large over Gen Ed’s launch. The Gen Ed committee’s primary challenge has been to ensure that students have a wide enough variety of courses to choose from in the fall, according to former Gen Ed committee member Alexander...
Upon the 2003 reformulation of WGS, leaders of the Caucus—a 4,900-member group that works to advocate for Harvard’s LGBT community—decided that it could support the new program by endowing a visiting professorship, according to Parry...
...Faust passes on Jackson, the next Dean would face a steeper learning curve in terms of mastering the budget and would require more staff support to understand the school’s finances than the budget-savvy acting Dean...