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...first major effort toward that end came on Feb. 3, when Summers announced the creation of two Faculty task forces to address the dearth of women in science at Harvard. Politically, the announcement was most significant because of the help he had enlisted to facilitate the task forces: Professors Drew Gilpin Faust, Evelynn M. Hammonds, and Barbara J. Grosz, all members of the Faculty and strong critics of Summers’ original remarks. Inside Mass. Hall, staffers hoped that the trio would dispel notions of Summers’ estrangement from his Faculty, according to two people close to the president?...
...Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes told a summit of university presidents in Washington last Friday that the U.S. benefits from attracting the best and brightest international students. She added that studying in the U.S. exposes foreign students to American values.The initiatives for international students include the creation of a new Fulbright award to fund the graduate studies of “outstanding” foreign students in science and technology, Hughes said. She also described plans for college and university leaders to travel abroad this year to promote American higher education in several trips to be organized...
While the course could provide a useful model for the creation of future courses—both in the sciences and in other disciplines—the resources required for numerous similar courses could prove daunting...
Freshmen frustration with the bell’s schedule has led to the creation of a group on facebook.com called “Students For the Destruction of the 8:40 Bell.” In its description, creator Lily G. Bellow ’09, a resident of Weld Hall, writes: “Damn you, bell. Damn...
...agree wholeheartedly with that sentiment; Harvard’s creation of an undergraduate accounting course would certainly convenience scores of students. But it would do so at a real cost. To offer such a vocationally oriented course at Harvard would be a blow to the liberal arts foundations of Harvard’s undergraduate program, which have been rightly protected in the face of moves toward pre-professional courses at peer institutions like Princeton, Columbia, and Yale (all of which now offer courses in accounting to their undergraduates...