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...school committee member Nancy Tauber. “We wanted [the new superintendent] to know this issue was a priority.” Grassi went so far as to identify the concern as “the biggest issue the school committee is going to have over the next term.” While Young will not provide concrete recommendations, he will be presenting a general plan to the school committee on September 22nd. “My understanding is he’s going to present recommendations in terms of the process and how he’s going...
...Politics, and Public Policy announced its slate of fall fellows earlier this week—a group of two journalists and two academics who will stay at Harvard to research issues confronting the modern press. The Shorenstein fellowship program, now in its twenty-fourth year, funds a semester-long term for experts in news media. Fellows are selected by a committee of the Shorenstein Center’s senior staff and Kennedy School faculty. This year’s fellows are John G. Geer, a Vanderbilt professor and an expert on political attack ads; Loen Kelley, a television producer...
...replace it, the Gen Ed office has been accommodating dozens of drop-in visits and around 200 e-mails a day—including a surprising number from upperclassmen for whom the program is not mandatory. The rush seems to go beyond the normal “beginning-of-term insanity,” according to Stephanie H. Kenen, administrative director of the program in General Education. Administrators had not anticipated the number of juniors and seniors who have shown interest in graduating under Gen Ed in an attempt to gain greater flexibility in their scheduling. Given that...
...Both in terms of volunteerism and this idea of kind of civic consumerism, our polls show that there has been a - for lack of a better term, kind of Obama effect - that includes both of you - and that in some ways you started talking about, early on, this very American idea of doing well by doing good: green industry, the idea that principles and progress are not mutually exclusive. In some way, you've both been an endorsement of this and a beneficiary of it. The President: Our campaign was an example...
...worst recession since the Great Depression, that businesses are cutting back across the board, and that includes their philanthropic efforts. What that also means is it's going to bounce back once businesses themselves bounce back. So I'm not so much worried about the long-term trends. I think that this is going to be a shorter-term phenomenon...