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...discussions of a timeline premature. “The persistent rumors out there [are] based on the mythology that the University is one big coordinated entity and that some Harvard office is the keeper of the list of people to be laid off,” said Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, the University’s largest union. “Our experience is that both of those impressions are blatantly wrong.” He added that schools and departments around the University have only begun requesting meetings with the union...
...future academic work in the field, prioritizing a compelling introduction to the subject matter instead.“We did this because we didn’t think the concentration should be pre-professional scholarly training,” says Mark J. Schiefsky, the Classics department’s director of undergraduate studies, while explaining why the department decided to eliminate its long-standing (and notoriously rigorous) general examinations.“We’re supposed to be offering something that’s of much broader appeal and utility to the students,” says David Charbonneau...
...teaching fellows described her as warm and sensitive. “I’ve noticed that students who have taken one class with her often go back for a second class, or will ask her to direct their senior theses,” said Professor Daniel G. Donoghue, director of undergraduate studies for the English department. “She seems to make strong connections.” Coles echoed this sentiment, saying he often visited Carpio to discuss the non-academic side of his life—and she was always willing to listen...
...study of U.S. foreign relations over his 55 years at Harvard, died Monday from complications following surgery. He was 80.May left his mark on the University, filling a wide array of roles, including dean of the College, associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and director of the Institute of Politics. “There are a small number of people at Harvard who really step up through genuine belief in the institution and the people in it, and Ernest May was one of them,” said Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood.As dean...
...class of 2013—all of whom will fall under the new program. The work thus far has been more struggle than seamless shift. There’s always an “enormous gap” between rules and practice, says the History department’s director of undergraduate studies, Daniel L. Smail, suggesting that it will be the work of the last two years, culminating next fall, that will be of most consequence for the new curriculum, and not its theoretical conception. “If you take my view, it’s the practice...