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...Director Esten Perez. The IOP endowment began with $10 million in donations after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ’40 in 1963. While the IOP does not release information about the current value of its endowment, Kevin P. Kiley ’07, a former chair of the IOP Fellows Committee, and Ashwin Kaja ’07, a former director of the IOP Skills Program, wrote in a December 2005 Crimson editorial that the endowment was nearly $100 million. IOP Director Bill P. Purcell said that he expected the endowment’s decline...
Now—nearly two years later—Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris leans back in his chair and crosses his arms. His sparsely decorated office marks a striking contrast to the Faculty Room just a floor above. The walls are bare. As I interview him, my eyes fall upon Eliot’s Harvard Classics series on a small gray bookshelf nearby, their gold letters glittering against the red binding. On an adjacent bookshelf I see “General Education in a Free Society”—more commonly known...
...summer 2007, Harris was appointed chair of the newly formed Standing Committee on General Education. Already chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and instructor of a popular Core course, Moral Reasoning 54: “If There is No God, All Is Permitted,” Harris had a significant stake in the trajectory of General Education...
...chair of the committee, Harris was charged with translating the ideals of the final report into a workable curriculum...
...student governing body as any more progressive than that of other institutions.“I very much had to prove myself in a way male freshman reps did not,” she said.In the second semester of her sophomore year, she served as Finance Committee chair and held that position for the first semester of her junior year.Yet when it came time for well-positioned juniors to consider running for president, Flores said, she was asked by two potential candidates to serve as their vice-president.She said she did not believe a man with her qualifications would have been...