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First, the University has already said that it will create a new position—a senior vice provost for diversity and faculty development??to increase diversity in the faculty. This decision is a mistake. We support the ends this vice provost will try to meet, but we do not support the means. The creation of this position has the unfortunate effect of letting everyone else involved in the tenure process ignore diversity as such considerations become the responsibility of one person. Every department should be considering diversity when it comes to giving tenure to faculty, not just...
...particularly pernicious misconception equates “development?? with economic growth alone and imagines that sacrificing the condition of the environment to achieve such growth is a necessary even if regrettable cost of doing business. But economic gains won in this way mortgage our future well-being and that of our children and grandchildren. We need to think of “development?? as meaning improvement of the human condition in all of its dimensions—environmental and sociopolitical as well as economic—and “sustainable development?? as meaning...
Down syndrome is a “genetic condition that causes delays in physical and intellectual development?? and typically causes “mild to moderate impairments,” according to the National Association for Down Syndrome...
Glazer also discussed two big projects that he believes the UC needs to tackle this year—the curricular review and Allston development??although the long-term effects of both initiatives might not be visible during the representatives’ time at Harvard...
...Field, where they will be greeted by a fully stocked private tailgate and members of their Final Club. Meanwhile, the vast majority of Harvard’s female students and graduates will have no special tailgate to call their own. With female social clubs being such a recent development??and a very small development at that—Harvard women lack the social connections of their male peers and former classmates. As the newly chosen survivors of punch season and their socially elite predecessors mingle for the first time, perhaps they will all notice—as indeed...