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...impressive scope was largely made possible by an effective synergy between three arts-related organizations in the Harvard community. “I was really amazed by the way the A.R.T., the OFA, and the HRDC brought this all together so early on in the formation of a J-term,” Stone says. While the A.R.T. Institute brought in the instructors and curriculum for classes, the OFA handled logistics such as obtaining campus housing for the participants, and the HRDC facilitated the program’s involvement of undergraduates. All three organizations cooperated and exchanged ideas...
...Intensive’s focus on providing high quality training for undergraduates demonstrates the potential uses to which J-term could be put in the future. “I’m incredibly happy to have this opportunity and be a part of this given the fact that most J-term programs really aren’t under way yet,” says Stone. “It’s a great opportunity and I think it’s something that’s going to evolve into something really awesome over the years...
...professors who were accustomed to Harvard’s old schedule, with exams occurring after the holiday season, are being forced to adapt their syllabi to a shorter semester. In an e-mail, Literature professor Leo Damrosch wrote that he has tried this year to extend due dates for term papers past the end of a “painfully compressed” reading period...
While Owen’s retirement was pushed off a year with the program, the package may incentivize earlier retirement for some professors. English Professor Lawrence Buell said he had already formulated a long-term retirement plan, and he has not yet determined what effect the program will have on those plans. “It is quite generous,” he said...
Although GDM is a serious condition that “increases both short-term and long-term health risk for the mother and the baby,” Chen said that it has not garnered as much attention from the scientific community as other risk factors during pregnancy...