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Harvard Records $130-Million Deficit in Fiscal 2011
… Harvard reported a $130-million operating deficit in the fiscal year ended last June 30—about 3 percent of total expenditures—according to the Harvard University … below the rate of inflation indefinitely” (and some of the rise in expenses, of course, is associated with higher …
The Newest Rhodes
… The newest Rhodes: Shazrene Mohamed '04, from Bulawayo, … Harvard's seventh Rhodes Scholarship winner for 2004 (see " The Rhodes Roster ," March-April). Her concentration … Oxford. Shazrene Mohamed '04 Photo by Jonathan Shaw … The newest Rhodes: Shazrene Mohamed '04, from Bulawayo, …
Issue: May-June 2004
“Eisenhower 2.0”
… ’53 and Linda Cabot Black ’51 biked around Cambridge during their Radcliffe years, but they never met until last November, while logging upwards of 20 miles a day on a cycling tour of the scenic East Coast … seaboard. Advocates and city planners both report seeing a rise in bike use across the country, especially in urban …
Issue: March-April 2010
Debating Divestment
… Faculty advocates of divesting Harvard investments in the production, distribution, and combustion of fossil fuels … the summer melt season, which in turn constrained sea level rise. This is no longer the case. Perhaps more striking, …
FAS Dean’s Academic Priorities—and Financial Constraints
… In presenting her annual report to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this afternoon, … Campaign—its longer-term outlook may come as a sobering surprise to many members of the community. Following …
The Movement to Open Up Syllabi
… Syllabi are generally most relevant during the early weeks of the semester, when students are making … tend to be forgotten—tossed away or crumpled at the bottom of backpacks, pulled out only when students need to double …
The Rittase Touch
… When the engineer-turned-photographer William Rittase visited Harvard in the fall of 1932, he captured a campus that was in the middle of a radical transformation. President Abbott Lawrence …
Lessons from the Limelight
… years ago. Jerold S. Kayden ’75, M.C.R.-J.D. ’79, hatched the idea for it and Myra Mayman, head of the Office for the Arts, embraced it. “I was president of the …
Issue: September-October 2005
Libraries on the Edge
… But now budgetary pressures that have been building during the past decade, and intensified in the past year, threaten the ability of the world’s largest private library to collect works as … pace with inflation, while the cost of printed materials rises 9 percent a year. The budget of the Harvard College …
Issue: January-February 2010
Harvard College Applications Level Off
… reported today that 34,295 people have sought admission to the class of 2018—about 2 percent fewer than the record 35,023 … there is now strong demographic evidence that a two-decade rise in the number of high-school seniors in the United …
Profiting from the Human Genome
… fact: academic institutions hold more gene patents than the top 25 pharmaceutical companies and all biotech … A slide illustrating this revelation (see below) kicked off "Commercializing the Genome," held April 5 at the Harvard Business School, one in a series of University-wide, student-sponsored panels that examined …
Over the River Dept.
… Branding. Even when at play, apparently, the M.B.A.s-to-be at Harvard Business School (HBS) are also … a résumé submitted to Goldman Sachs recruiters. The soul of an engineer. Across Western Avenue, the science and engineering complex—home to much of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences …
Issue: March-April 2023
Post-Regulatory School Reform
… At the turn of the twenty-first century, the United States was … a solid legislative footing. Political opposition began to rise against two of the waivers’ key recommendations: … and in competition among them. Private initiative and enterprise would quicken the pace of progress in this area as it …
Issue: September-October 2016
The Truth About Imposter Syndrome
… In the first few months of my freshman year, I was told, … the SEAS Graduate Council defines as “a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident … that one has fooled others, which could actually only arise from putting on some kind of conscious performance, …
Issue: May-June 2022
Changes to the Core Curriculum
… At its May meeting, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted to add a new … the Faculty Council. The exception came with the surprise passage of a motion introduced by professor of English …