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...here to work, and your business here is learning.” It was with these words that outgoing Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby welcomed us, as freshmen, into Harvard’s folds. This ethic of productive and studious endeavor has been translated and conveyed to us as a mission: we are here to be educated as “citizens of the world,” to use a phrase often used by our (also outgoing) University president. Ostensibly, this goal of fostering global responsibility informs the structure of Harvard’s curriculum, the breadth...
...have $4 million in the bank for every endowed senior professorship of the kind the fund hopes to establish to hire women and minority faculty.“I hope that $50 million is only a beginning for the long run,” Dean of the Divinity School William A. Graham, who served on the original task force and, as dean, has been in contact with Hammonds’ office throughout the year, writes in an e-mail.Hammonds says she anticipates additional spending on mentorship programs and another, more detailed, survey to be conducted this year.“These...
...Faculty Council, FAS’s elected, 18-member highest body, and the Caucus of Chairs, a newer, less formal group. The professors used their increased power to act against Summers, whose leadership style and stances on several issues they disliked, and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, whom they perceived as mishandling FAS affairs...
...annual letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby wrote, “Through curricular review and renewal, we have recommitted ourselves to our students—for whom, after all, our College and University exist.” Yet over the past year, the priorities of the Faculty have appeared to diverge from those of its outgoing dean. The Faculty has addressed few of the critical problems facing undergraduate education in any meaningful way, including those of curricular reform and the need for better teaching. Instead, it spent much...
...least 10 Harvard students are currently undocumented immigrants, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67. Fitzsimmons acknowledges, however, that the actual number may be higher because the citizenship status of students is only verified if they apply for financial...