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...described Faust’s approach as direct and up-front in requesting their financial support to bolster the University’s cash reserves. Instead of winning donors over with plans for a new building dedicated to cutting-edge research, University leaders changed tactics and approached them for current use gifts and unrestricted funds to sustain Harvard’s core activities in the short-term.“We felt that it is very important to have resources to make immediate interventions that will have good outcomes in the long-term,” Faust says, citing...
...risk of slighting those whose interests go unmentioned because of the brevity of the space available here, I would like to highlight two university priorities: global health and energy and environment. What is it that makes these areas of scholarship and teaching priorities even in the current climate? First, they have real world significance. Global health (which also includes domestic health issues, if only because microbes do not need passports) and issues of energy and environment confront challenges that any great research university must address. The emergence of pandemics, the development of new drugs, vaccines, and devices for neglected diseases...
...several faculty members. ENTRENCHMENTIn at least one case, the potential for creating new Gen Ed classes has been hindered by the restriction of the terms of the Gen Ed legislation—a difficult fit for some subjects.When Economics professor N. Gregory Mankiw submitted a course proposal for his current Core class Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics” (Ec10) for credit in the “United States in the World” category in January 2008, the Gen Ed committee agreed that Ec10 “didn’t belong?...
...think this is an amazingly important, exciting, but also troubling moment,” he said. “It’s exciting because young people are stepping up and want to serve, but it’s frightening because our current system doesn’t always give people the opportunity to serve.” Kennedy School Professor Robert I. Rotberg agreed that the federal government would benefit from an increased number of talented students entering the public sector. “I hope people pay attention and they get developed,” Rotberg said...
...Even though the College has stabilized the undergraduate population size by freezing transfer admissions, a growing number of students over the last century has rendered current House capacity insufficient...