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...more modestly in some ways I can’t now foresee.”Faust describes the messages she has been sending to alumni as two-fold—Harvard must not only “adjust to a changed financial context” but also take advantage of the crisis to sort through University priorities going forward. “We must be in charge of change instead of being the object of change,” Faust says.But the changes the University has implemented thus far—including salary freezes, construction slowdown, and reduced faculty searches?...
...professors on the committee vested with implementing the College’s first curricular overhaul in 30 years, science professor John Huth does not take his obligations lightly. One morning this spring, he had to drop his daughter off at school, take his car to the mechanic, bike to his office, and change into a dress shirt there, all by 8:30 a.m.—to make it to a General Education committee meeting, where he would help hammer out course proposals for an hour and a half. It’s behind-the-scenes labors like these that...
...Although Jackson has shown himself to be a capable administrator, questions remain over what direction he would take the school and what vision he would bring to the corner office in Griswold Hall...
...School in 1986. “But within all this difficulty there is also incredible potential and promise, and yours is the task of finding that promise by remaking the world.” Law School students have often been too risk-averse or too unwilling to take chances in the past, Kagan said—especially in a past when major law firms offered job security and six-figure salaries. As a result, the economic turmoil might have the beneficial side-effect of causing graduates to think through what career choices would be most fulfilling, she said. Kagan extended...
...example,” “be humble,” “don’t hesitate to make decisions,” “be a team player and a team builder,” and “don’t take yourself too seriously, but do take your work seriously.” Petraeus—whose remarks were part of a ceremony following the commissioning of four seniors into the Army and three into the Marine Corps—was hailed as a “soldier scholar?...