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Harvard officials said that the benefits outlined in the 11-page document would serve as “building blocks” for a discussion of longer-term benefits that will be provided to the neighborhood as the University expands into the area over the next 50 years...
...effective package of reforms. Similar reforms were tabled last May to be more fully thought out. Now that a more comprehensive plan has been produced, the Faculty no longer has any good reason to further postpone action. “A strong tradition of faculty self-governance in the area of teaching” and Mansfield’s grumblings about “less wise” students are just a sampling of the poor excuses that faculty members have given for avoiding real reform in the way courses are evaluated at Harvard. Today, members of the Faculty have...
...reality is that at the moment, the growth is slow in social studies and humanities,” Gordon said. “The administration isn’t in the mood at the moment, or in the recent past, to dramatically expand the faculty in this area.” And despite sporadic student activism, professors said, undergraduate advocates have failed to provide the steady pressure needed for change. “I don’t think that the student push has been that sustained or has offered a clear vision of why this is important...
...evaluate their employer institution’s performance in 12 categories. Among the categories used to gauge junior faculty satisfaction—including the reasonableness of the tenure process, support available for faculty members with families, and compensation—Harvard only received an exemplary rating in one area: teaching. Stanford and Brown University both received exemplary status on eight of the criteria, followed by Duke with seven, and Dartmouth with six. Patricia P. Jones, vice provost for faculty development and diversity and a biology professor at Stanford, attributes some of the disparities in faculty satisfaction to differences...
...needs this trailer? America. Cloverfield CELLULOID GOLD This is what a trailer should be, hands down. We’re talking goosebumps like nothing else. First, we just get text about “sightings” that were “retrieved” from an area “formerly known as Central Park.” The rest of it is just a bunch of shaky, disjointed clips from digital, hand-held cameras. At the very beginning, they seem to be from some hipster douchebag’s birthday party, but pretty quickly, some serious stuff goes...