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Similarly, faculty will benefit from the heightened challenge and stimulation that teaching advanced students presents. The possibility of teaching upper-level, specialized courses and working alongside committed, sophisticated students is likely to draw ambitious, dedicated faculty members to Harvard. In the long run, a film Ph.D. program will strengthen VES at large...
...sweeping new financial aid initiative announced today, Harvard said it would significantly reduce the expected contributions from middle- and upper-class families and eliminate loans for all students...
...things work out? Laffer is convinced that the reduction of the top tax rate from 70% to 28% during the Reagan years paid for itself--in part by encouraging the rich to stop finagling--and the evidence mostly backs him up. "You find these enormous responses in the upper brackets," Laffer says. "These guys fire their lawyers and accountants and actually pay their taxes. Yay! Isn't that what we want them...
...employs 325 lecturers and preceptors throughout its departments. Employing faculty with short-term contracts allows universities to more easily change teachers and the courses offered to meet their needs, Casey said. “Most of our non-tenured positions are brought in to support upper faculty and to enrich and deepen course offerings,” he said. Curtis said the expansion of contingent faculty was a source of concern. Non-tenure-track faculty, including graduate students, often don’t have as much time to devote to students. And their students can have difficulty finding mentors...
Perhaps one of Koh’s most impressive attributes was his ability to blend cohesively with the orchestra. Koh presented an image to the audience of the cellist as part of a larger organism that is the HRO. As the strings played, he extended his upper body towards them as if trying to immerse his head in the music; as the horns played, he leaned back as if to absorb the sounds of the brass. Koh was clearly aware that the success of the orchestra depended on each of its parts working together—a trait that truly...