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...this long-standing tradition has not been immune from the unprecedented fiscal crisis that is projected to cost Harvard nearly a third of its $36.9-billion endowment...
...administration went beyond the report’s initial recommendations. Noting that about a third of undergraduates eat breakfast and the University would save $900,000 as a result of the cut, the administration decided to keep only Annenberg open for hot breakfast during weekdays next year...
...with their ideas for January and were encouraged to further investigate the details involved with implementation, especially the financial aspect of J-Term.But by November 2008—when it became evident that the economic crisis would cripple Harvard’s endowment, which the University projects will lose a third of its value by June 30—the plans for J-Term programming were overshadowed by the College’s financial concerns. “It was one of those decisions that fell down between the cracks,” Associate Dean of Student Life and Activities Judith...
...priorities in everything we do. In the first and smallest bucket go our highest priorities, those things so important we might need to increase spending on them. In the second medium-sized bucket go things central to the core mission of FAS that cannot be reduced. In the third and largest bucket is everything else, and much of it will have...
...There are some things we’d be better off without: jaywalking laws, spam (definitely the email kind, maybe the “food” kind too), pollution. But as I finish my third and final year as a student at Harvard, and as the college has quietly done away with transfer admissions a year after announcing a two-year suspension of the program, I continue to hope that Harvard doesn’t permanently decide that transfer students are one of the things the school is better off without than with. I fear that institutional inertia will...