Word: academicization
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Sundquist defended the council, struck his blows for the UC’s relevance, and used his opening statement to address the council’s role in the University’s decision this spring to change the academic calendar.
Matching the academic interests of advisers and advisees works well in the sophomore advising program. Students are, after all, much closer to knowing which fields they are interested in pursuing. Freshman year, on the other hand, should be a time of exploration of the many academic opportunities available at Harvard...
To be sure, the first-year advising program faces challenges. With 685 advisers (438 non-resident advisers, 51 percent of whom are faculty plus 62 proctors and 185 peer advisers) and 1,675 students (not to mention 44 concentrations and well over a hundred advisers in the concentrations), making the...
Noted anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis died at home last Sunday. The death of the former Henderson Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus came after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, he emigrated to the United States in 1960 to join the Harvard faculty. He was...
Stephen H. Kargère, Cabot House’s beloved Allston-Burr resident dean, will step down at of the start of the year, House Master Jay Harris announced in an e-mail Tuesday night. Though a historian by training, Kargère said that he will become the...