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...solicit gifts for the new endowment for the Fogg Museum’s Department of American Art, curator Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. said he often approached known patrons of American art who had no prior connection to Harvard and were his own friends. While the six other branches of the Fogg Museum received funding from the University’s budget, the Department of American Art, which was established in 2002, was surviving on year-to-year private donations. But in a four-year campaign orchestrated mainly by Stebbins, the department raised $10.5 million that will now be allocated...
...other schools. Since Harvard faculty and administrators are very protective of their own domains, the sponsor must make sure that the proposal takes existing resources into account, such as those available through Human Resources or the Association of Black Faculty, Administrators, and Fellows. Next, a sponsor needs to solicit advice from numerous associate, provisional, and otherwise-affiliated deans. Such consultations serve the dual purpose of providing feedback and potentially garnering support for a proposal. In particular, the deans of the College and the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) ought to be consulted, along with some of the active members...
...appear that the community’s input is being listened to at all.” Kathy A. Spiegelman, Harvard’s chief planner for Allston, said that although the new roads were needed to keep traffic off residential streets, the University would continue to solicit resident feedback and amend the plan. “I have found that you all know a lot more about the traffic here than anyone on our team,” she said. “I hope that you will continue to challenge whether there are problems with our design...
...schools can afford to do, both financially and practically. Any such attempt to change policy, however, should be accompanied by active engagement with the involved community. No parent should be surprised by the new clothing catalogs for school uniforms arriving in his or her mailbox. Rather, school boards must solicit input from faculty, staff and students such that the broader community can feel involved and invested in improving their neighborhood schools. While we recognize the elements of anachronism in mandating public school uniforms, today’s crisis in education warrants such measures. The benefits that uniforms can offer...
...floor at Pharmacy, a celebrity-magnet restaurant co-owned by Hirst that gradually lost its magnetism and closed. That sale brought a jaw-dropping $20 million for everything from artworks to Hirst-designed martini glasses. Then, in February, he worked with Sotheby's in New York to solicit 100 major artists, including Jasper Johns and Anish Kapoor, to donate work to a sale that raised $42 million for RED, a socially conscious business venture cofounded by his rockstar friend Bono...