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...monetary bonuses. Wei said that the reduction in the number of test graders was not financially motivated. Although there will be fewer graders, Wei said the move actually will be “cost-neutral” since each grader will be required to work more hours, leaving the total number of paid hours constant. He estimated that the program will hire about 50 students this upcoming fall, a drop from the 67 students hired at the beginning of last year. Each semester in the course, 10 unit tests are given, with each test cycle lasting eight days. Each test...
...meeting. The assistant to the resident dean is responsible for a wide array of administrative tasks, including the maintenance of an average of 400 files for current undergraduates as well as seven years’ worth of alumni files—which amounts to more than 500 files total in some Houses. The assistant also sends out recommendation letters for students applying to graduate or pre-professional schools. Additionally, he or she is often the sole “point of access” in Houses, providing students with impromptu counseling and advising, and fielding questions about academic policies, according...
...language requirement. There is also an entirely new section on the Gen Ed curriculum, which will be fully implemented this fall and required of all incoming members of the class of 2013. As of Wednesday, 51 Gen Ed classes have been approved to be offered next year, with 168 total classes next year counting toward the new curriculum. —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...
...given the financial climate, college officials said next year they will be more stringent about meeting the general target. In meeting this threshold, McCarty said they hope to be able to cut the total number of sections by 10 percent. In the ’08-’09 academic year, the college had roughly 4,500 sections...
...Seattle St. in Brighton for 10 years, after which Harvard will purchase the parcel unless the owner elects to sell it to the University sooner. She declined to comment on the costs of the lease agreement and said that she did not have figures on hand for the precise total square footage of the lot, but emphasized that no deeds had been conferred at this time.Supply New England, the plumbing and heating company that currently occupies the site, will remain on site as tenants under the terms of the agreement, which was reached on Dec. 22 and finalized on April...