Word: willful
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Spence wrote that FAS should improve itsstudent advising system and increase opportunitiesfor interaction between students and faculty. Toaccomplish this end, FAS will have to expand, hesaid.
Spence also called for resources to be devotedto a program that will set up a more formalforeign internship program for undergraduates anda plan to enroll 200 to 300 more foreign studentsat the College by expanding the student body.
The much-talked about transformation of theHarvard Union into a "Humanities Center" andMemorial Hall into a dining hall and studentcenter will be a fundraising priority, Spencewrote.
Spence said the plan will help to alleviate asevere faculty office space shortage, which hitsjunior faculty especially hard, and allowdepartments to house their members closer togetherthan is currently possible.
GSAS Dean Brendan A. Maher has said that thegraduate school needs more money for directfellowships to allow students writing theirdissertations to spend less time teaching. Heargues that this will reduce the attrition rateamong graduate students and allow Harvard to startaddressing an impending nationwide shortage ofPh.Ds.