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...Such a shift is likely to be a welcome development in a review that some have criticized for neglecting the Harvard community in its decision-making process...
Jaeger said he sees the move as a shift in resources from administration to research...
...easy to point to Sept. 11 as the watershed moment when America turned into a nation of nesters and began eating chicken potpies at home while wearing pearls and sweater sets. But, says Françoise Serralta of Peclers Paris, an international trend-forecasting agency, the shift really started earlier, in anticipation of the new millennium: "Sept. 11 only speeded up a reaction to what was already happening." The ongoing terrorist threat, sluggish economy and war in Iraq have helped fuel the thirst for nostalgia, but there are other factors at work...
...trial balloon floated last month that would shift first-year advising to the Houses appears to be failing...
Gregory C. Tucci, the assistant director of undergraduate studies for chemistry and chemical biology, who opposes assigning first-years to Houses, suggests an alternative that might accomplish the intended goals of such a shift. “What about hiring more concentration advisers to be in the freshman dorms? You could add graduate tutors, but you could add them to the freshman dorms instead of transferring freshmen to the Houses. You could still have proctors, but they might be in charge of advising about social things if you throw in more specific concentration advisers that would live in the dorms...