FAS
A Seat at the Table
After two Mass. Hall decisions prompt controversy, some Harvard professors are calling for a centralization of faculty governance.
In Flux: Non-Ladder Life at Harvard
For the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ many lecturers, Harvard can be a pit stop riddled with job insecurity and uncertainty for what comes next.
Opportunity in Crisis: Selling the Humanities
As universities nationwide experience a crisis in the humanities, Harvard embarks on its first major fundraising campaign for the arts.
Making Classes, but Not Money
As professors volunteer hours to developing online courses for edX, some call for the young platform to compensate its teachers.
The Founders: The Evolution of edX at Harvard and MIT
While the two schools co-founded the online learning platform three years ago, some say its effect has been greater on MIT’s campus.
Francis Doyle, Professor at UCSB, Named Next SEAS Dean
Doyle will assume leadership of the school on August 1 as it seeks to raise $450 million in advance of its 2019 move to a new campus in Allston.
With Gen Ed Under Fire, Faculty Critique Undergraduate Academics More Broadly
An interim report that detailed the failings of the College’s program in General Education has prompted faculty members to critique how their peers teach and assess undergraduate students more broadly.
Junior Faculty Win Abramson Award for Teaching
Associate professors Ruth Bielfeldt and Sarah S. Richardson were awarded the annual Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Minority Faculty at FAS
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is making efforts to recruit more minority faculty members.
Few in Number, Harvard's Minority Faculty Face Additional Burdens
While Harvard has institutionalized a hiring process designed to draw in more a racially and ethnically diverse faculty, some professors say there is more work to do to improve the work environment for those faculty after they enter Harvard’s gates.
Semester’s Final Faculty Meeting Focuses on Gen Ed Criticisms
While Faculty members largely said they agree with the founding principles of the program, they denounced the program for counting departmental courses for Gen Ed credit.
Among Harvard’s Faculty, ‘Women Are Still Pioneers’
Though the environment for women faculty at Harvard has improved over the past 20 years, many say that there is still room for improvement.
Committee Finds Attendance Study Did Not Violate Harvard Policy
The Committee on the Oversight of Electronic Communications found that a controversial attendance study conducted last spring did not violate the University’s Policy on Access to Electronic Information.
Proposal Would Change Faculty Council Election Procedures
If approved, the new system would replace a proportional representation system created in the fall of 1969, according to a proposal distributed to the Faculty in advance of their meeting Tuesday.
Report Says Gen Ed Program Is 'Failing' on Many Fronts
The report lists about two dozen grievances about the program, voiced by undergraduates, teaching fellows, administrators, and faculty members in the past year.
Harvard Will Renovate Lowell House in 2017-2018
Pending funding approval, planners will begin full construction on Lowell House in the summer of 2017, and administrators hope to finish the project the next summer, in 2018.
Claudine Gay Named Next FAS Social Science Divisional Dean
Gay joined the Government department in 2006 and is currently its director of graduate studies. She will take over the deanship from Sociology professor Peter Marsden on July 1.
Stanford Professor Combines Machine Learning and Econometrics
As part of the Economics Department’s Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Lecture Series, Stanford economics professor Susan Athey lectured on new methods of including machine learning in econometrics late Tuesday afternoon.
Report Shows Dissatisfaction With Gen Ed Program, Prof Says
Faculty will discuss the interim report on the current program in General Education at their next monthly meeting on May 5.
Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison To Deliver Six Campus Lectures
As the Norton Professor, Morrison will give a series of six free lectures called “Baring Witness, Bearing Views” to begin next year on March 2 in Sanders Theatre
Harvard Faculty Weigh In on Emerging Presidential Candidates
Although the 2016 presidential election is more than a year away, several faculty members stressed that the early stages of a presidential election can serve as a critical time for candidates looking to secure their party’s respective nomination.
Theater Concentration Courts Potential Concentrators
The professor who spearheaded the initiative to create the Theater, Dance, and Media concentration is turning his efforts to attracting both current students and admitted members of the Class of 2019.