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...interim dean took another step in that direction Tuesday when he launched an FAS task force to study ways to improve teaching at Harvard. The task force, chaired by Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol, is expected to release its findings early next year...
...compromises reached. There are a host of other problems that show the University is still bound by the not-so-glorious burdens of its past. Affirmative action wins verbal praise from the University, but most of the women who go to the Faculty Club are still guests. Theda Skocpol, an award-winning sociologist, was turned down for tenure here; she filed a grievance, a three-member panel heard her case, and then ruled that indeed there was evidence of gender discrimination. Others have suggested prejudice against junior faculty and intellectual bias played parts in the denial of tenure. Now it?...
Standing in front of an early-morning crowd gathered at Appleton Chapel in Harvard Yard this past April, Theda Skocpol used the word “we” 29 times. Her message, one which called for unity among the University’s different communities and factions, struck an appropriate note for the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). But it was odd for someone of whom a colleague once said, “She’s a very divisive person. Wherever she has been there’s always been conflict...
...report—authored by five-professor group chaired by political scientist Peter A. Hall, and including historian David R. Armitage, economist Edward L. Glaeser, sociologist Mary C. Waters, and political scientist Theda Skocpol—called for a smaller steering committee that will manage and direct the department...
Professors Howard E. Gardner ’65, Stephen Owen, and Theda Skocpol have joined founding fathers, academic bigwigs, and current Harvard scholars as newly elected members of the American Philosophical Society (APS). Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 for “promoting useful knowledge,” the APS is the oldest learned society in America...