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...tenure candidate needs to be well-rounded—both a professor and a scholar. “A weakness in either one could disqualify somebody,” says History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74. Though evaluations of scholarship and teaching are central to tenure decisions across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, administrators say the definition of scholarship varies by department. In economics and science, scholars develop their reputations by publishing journal articles, while monographs are more important for historians, according to recently arrived Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Brian W. Casey...
...question on the table at last night’s discussion sponsored by the Harvard Mental Health Advocacy Group (MHAAG). “We’re here to promote destigmatization of mental health issues through open discussion,” said MHAAG co-chair Eunice Yang ’08. The approximately 20 students, alums, and MHAAG members present for the event pushed the couches in the Lowell JCR into a tight circle and discussed ways to help friends suffering from mental health issues. Though all of the information presented in the meeting was meant to apply to individuals...
...greater growth, India has higher prospects for education than any other country. “It is both the glory and the vice of India that it has a deeply thoughtful, highly educated civil service,” said Summers. Rohan Kekre ’08, academic and political chair of the South Asian Association (SAA), which co-sponsored the event with SAI and the Harvard Foundation, said he appreciated Summers’ interest in the rise of South Asia. “President Summers obviously understood this in a way that few others at Harvard do. We?...
...shit has been going down in the TLR–and overworked and under-socialized students have been able to pretend from Friday night to Sunday morning that they go to a normal college. Robert M. Koenig ’06-’07, former Currier House Committee chair, says of the TLR, “It’s the first place we’ve been able to have so many people get together.” Koenig went on, poignantly recalling events of semesters past: “We threw a No Pants Dance, for which...
...preparing for the fest. It remains to be seen, however, how much of this authority will be extended to the student body at large. Yardfest reflects a “changed way of operating,” explains G. Tyler O’Brien ’07, chair of the HCC. The HCC has planned on-campus concerts for the past three years.Their methods have not gone without criticism; the most notorious—and certainly most recent—clash between the committee and the campus was over the proposed Wyclef Jean concert, where high costs...