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...south wing of the Center for Government and International Studies runs a benefactor $750,000.The endowments on these soon-to-be Harvard landmarks have been shopped around for months, but in the wake of the resignations of University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby this spring, some people involved in fundraising at Harvard are worried that the buildings may remain unnamed a little longer.Interviews with almost two dozen major donors and prominent alumni over the past two weeks suggest that the resignations and the resulting tumult in the University have slowed the momentum...
...present a coherent narrative while exposing the complexities of academia.PICKING TEAMSTeaching teams play differently: members will either take turns giving lectures on their areas of interest or jointly present each lecture.The impromptu group-taught course that Hartl had as an undergraduate fits under what outgoing Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who has co-taught a Core course on Chinese history, calls “tag-team” teaching. In contrast to collaborative teaching, tag-teams take turns being in the lecture hall.“It tends to work less well when somebody shows...
...Along with Melvoin, the other members of the working group included Susan L. Graham ’64, who will become the Board’s president on July 1 and is a member of the presidential search committee; William F. Lee ’72, also a member of the search committee; M. Lee Pelton; and Pauline R. Yu ’71. Pelton, who is president of Willamette University in Oregon, chaired the group, and Saris participated ex officio...
Until 1865, the entire Massachusetts state senate sat as ex officio members of the Board of Overseers. But since the end of the Civil War, alumni have elected new Board members at Commencement. Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, who would become president in 1869, at the time called the change a “happy liberation” of the University from state control...
...circumstances strikingly similar to those in which the “Gang of Five” —a group of academics who revised the recommendations of the Committee on General Education last summer—was formed, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby has selected six professors to retailor a set of general education proposals that have generated little enthusiasm among faculty members.It is one of the last official acts of the deanship for Kirby, who was charged with spearheading the curricular review after taking office in 2002.One year after the Committee on General Education released...