when it comes to housing and non-academic life, undergraduates and graduate student face a double standard, the Strauch Committee argued Graduate are left to fend for themselves, deprived of a residential community.

To most the graduate experience less arduous, the Strauch Committee recommended that graduate students be affiliated with undergraduate. House on an experimental, non-residential basis. The committee also called on the University to make more campus and to construct additional housing if possible.

6. Quality control.

Education at the graduate school centers in the individual departments, and the Strauch Committee recommended a variety of measures to ensure quality and consistency across the board.

First, the Committee recommended that the dean enlist experts from outside Harvard to review each department's dean program every six years.

In addition, prompted in part by student complaints, the committee mapped out an improved advising system for use by all departments.

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Although Fox is technically Moore's subordinate, the responsibility for implementing much of the Strauch agenda would fall on his shoulders. With almost 15 years of experience in the University administration, he should be prepared for the challenges that lie ahead.

Moore, a relative newcomer to Harvard, remains untested in her new capacity. Her job is less sharply defined but more sensitive than Fox's.

Beyond its admonitions about graduate student teaching and research, the Strauch Report offers no prescriptions for educational policy at the GSAS. Moore will have to chart her own course if she wishes to abandon the laissez faire style of her predecessors and assert herself in the school's academic mission.

Whatever course she chooses, the charting will likely prove smoother than the actual sailing. It Moore is to guide the GSAS to its appointed destination, she will have to negotiate choppy waters against the current of strong-willed departments, professors, and her own boss--the dean of the College