Word: academicization
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Tangled in the bureaucracy of FAS, change comes slowly to the College and its undergraduates--constituents not always at the top of University priorities. Ideas aimed at improving student life can get stalled in committees as University officials sort through the bigness that is Harvard--the agendas and interests of...
Still others express concern that non-academic initiatives that would greatly improve the undergraduate experience are being ignored.
According to current FiCom chair Kyle S. Hawkins '02, Burton has only attended three-and-a-half FiCom meetings this entire academic year.
The report says HIID's main problem is that its size makes it difficult to integrate its programs into the University's academic mission.
The challenge, he added, is to integrate administrative support for a consulting operation into "a more traditional academic structure."