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...house and restructured Senior Common Rooms. The report was released to the community on April 1 in an e-mail from Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds. In a preface to the report, she writes that Harvard’s goal to “revitalize the House system?? would still be pursued despite “challenging economic times.” But, surely, these planned renovations and improvements will now have to wait. In the meantime, the university should ensure that the organizational heart of College residential life still lies within the Houses, rather than...
...University Library’s new search interface was released last week, featuring improvements like a simpler search box and expanded data breadth, according to Tracey D. Robinson, head of the Office for Information Systems in the University Library. The new version of the Harvard Online Library Information System??commonly known as HOLLIS—displays a color-coded “word cloud” that offers links to related search terms and a column that allows searchers to refine searches based on topic, format, language, and genre. “The Web search arena has been...
...undergraduates. They’re probably only worried about the quality of their wine cellars,” Mayman said. In establishing the current residential life system in the early twentieth century, University President Abbott L. Lowell, class of 1877, sought to depart from some of the English system??s shortcomings.To that end, he envisaged the SCR as a way to engender a more convivial and inter-generational academic environment in the Houses.At its inception, the House system integrated academic and social life—with professors living, teaching, and working in the Houses.But as the College doubled...
...senior staff met with every principal and every department head to discuss the budget and develop a viable plan, she said. Almost all of the principles of Cambridge’s 12 elementary schools were in attendance at the meeting, in addition to the principal of the system??s only high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin. Nearly three-quarters of the budget—74.5 percent—is allocated to expenditures in schools, roughly the same proportion as last year. The budget would preserve small elementary class size and keep the student teacher ratio at about...
...collections, has made it difficult to effectively coordinate services and adapt to technological innovations. While some branches of the libraries—such as the law, business and medical school libraries—are autonomous entities, other services, such as the Office of Information Services are centralized. Though the system??s organizational structure has been a concern before, the economic crisis has provided the impetus for library officials to rethink ways of increasing efficiency to meet budgetary constraints. Still, those involved with the project do not see it as a cost-cutting exercise. “The purpose...