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...committee’s discussion on House randomization was prompted by a 1984 study authored by Associate Registrar Jay A. Halfond and Mather House Senior Tutor Steven A. Epstein, which confirmed that Houses conformed to perceived stereotypes...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: To Randomize Or Not To Randomize? | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...pursuit of excellence,” Kagan set the bar high for her colleagues and created “a culture of incredibly high expectations and high stakes,” according to former Registrar staff member Leslie Sutton-Smith...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Elena Kagan’s Management Style Amped Up Pressure at Harvard Law School | 5/14/2010 | See Source »

...further simplify the scheduling process, Harris said that the Registrar intends to publish each semester’s exam schedule earlier than usual...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: FAS Deficit On the Road Toward Recovery | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

...make three-hour examinations at the end of the semester opt-in rather than opt-out for course leaders. Currently, the Office of the Registrar’s default assumption is that all professors will give exams at the close of a course, unless a professor specifically petitions the Registrar to do otherwise, according to Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris, who spearheaded the proposal...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: FAS Deficit On the Road Toward Recovery | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

...today, shopping is incredibly inefficient. The registrar seems to have a knack for wrongly guessing a given class’s enrollment, leading to a complex room reshuffle during the first week. In addition, many classes must scramble to find extra Teaching Fellows, a slow process that can delay sectioning and the syllabus. These TFs are also frequently underqualified, drawn from a subdiscipline barely relevant to the class. The current pre-registration plan hopes to cut down on this initial chaos—which cost Harvard one million dollars last year—but eliminating shopping would end it definitively...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: Close Up Shopping | 4/21/2010 | See Source »

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