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FAS Dean Details $220-Million Budget Gap; Working Groups to Address "Reshaping" Academic Activities
Updated April 15, 3:00 p.m. At a "town hall" meeting in Sanders Theatre on the afternoon of April 14--held in place of the regularly scheduled faculty meeting--Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), outlined what he called the …
The Academic Heights
Any Massachusetts Hall presidential transition—like the current one from Drew Gilpin Faust to Lawrence S. Bacow —naturally brings to mind questions about University leadership: who is best equipped to chart Harvard’s course, in the prevailing …
Issue: May-June 2018
Keeping It Green
For the first time that she can remember, clients are requesting “sustainable homes,” says Cambridge architect Maryann Thompson, M.Arch.-M.L.A. ’89, who is known for her “green building” principles. “It’s very exciting. Lots of clients who may have been …
Issue: November-December 2008
Debating Divestment
Faculty advocates of divesting Harvard investments in the production, distribution, and combustion of fossil fuels presented their case during the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on October 1—a prelude to a debate expected to take place at the …
Football 2017: Harvard 10, Rhode Island 17
On Saturday , two things were established at Meade Stadium in Kingston, Rhode Island, concerning the 144th edition of Harvard football: 1.) The Crimson would not go undefeated. 2.) There would be no Ocean State sweep, as there had been in the previous two …
The Parkland Generation
I spent my July Fourth listening to fireworks instead of watching them. I had opted for a nighttime walk through Danehy Park, just a few blocks north of the Radcliffe Quadrangle. During the school year, it had given me refuge during all manner of academic …
Issue: September-October 2022
“Class Cluelessness”
Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election spawned a maelstrom of finger-pointing and soul-searching within the Democratic Party. How could the party of FDR, LBJ, and, for that matter, Bill Clinton, have lost touch so thoroughly with the …
Issue: July-August 2017
President Obama Urges Criminal-Justice Reform in Harvard Law Review
Barely two weeks remaining before he’s due to leave office, President Barack Obama, J.D. ’91, has written an emotional plea for criminal-justice reform in the January 2017 edition of the Harvard Law Review , arguing for the role of the presidency in …
Fueling Our Future
Our demand for energy, on which we depend for health and prosperity, rises all the time: oil and natural gas to heat our homes; electricity for lights, refrigeration, computers, and televisions; gasoline and diesel for our cars and trucks. Fossil fuels …
Issue: May-June 2006
Gender Agenda
Even as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) intensely debated the College’s proposed rules sanctioning student participation in single-gender final clubs and similar social organizations, which are not officially recognized by Harvard, an outcry arose …
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Issue: January-February 2017
Mise en Scène
A professor once advised me that I shouldn’t have possessions until I have tenure. “Then,” he said, “you can start to collect books.” I’ve given away so many of my books over the years. The Harvard Advocate ’s library gets replenished every spring because …
Issue: January-February 2017
Adulting, Interrupted
At the start of the fall semester, my childhood best friend, Tara, and I decided to take a walk together every week. Our incentive was twofold: the Tucson weather was finally beginning to slither into the 80s—a refreshing change from the brutal 110-degree …
Issue: March-April 2021
Dining Workers’ Deadline
Harvard might soon find itself dealing with its largest labor battle in more than a decade, when in 2002 its lowest-paid workers fought for, and won , the right to earn a living wage. Yesterday, the University’s dining hall workers voted 591-18 to …
Learning About Teaching Now
This year’s Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference, the seventh annual iteration, held on September 21, highlighted new leaders’ new priorities, widening community interest in improved teaching, and the continuing challenges of …
A Common Underground
The place I remember most from freshman fall won’t show up on Google’s map of Harvard. I took a class whose questions permeate my studies to this day: “Racial Capitalism and the Black Radical Tradition , ” taught by history professors Vincent Brown and …
Issue: January-February 2021