IOP Announces Fall Roster of Residential and Visiting Fellows

A former interim Senator, a former U.S. Labor Secretary, and a former Los Angeles mayor will highlight the Institute of Politics’ fall roster of residential and visiting fellows.

The Fall IOP Fellows

From left to right, the IOP’s roster of fall fellows includes, in the first row, former interim U.S. Senator William “Mo” Cowan, political commentator Ana Navarro, and Romney campaign adviser Beth Myers, and, in the second row, Google strategy principal Ginny Hunt, political journalist Sasha Issenberg, and Karen Gordon Mills, who recently resigned as administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

With Three of Four Resident Deans Turning Over, FDO Completes Hires

The Freshman Dean’s Office has filled the vacancies created by the departures from the office of three of its four freshman resident deans this summer.

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Keating Report Corroborates Administrators’ Account of Email Search Scandal

A highly anticipated independent report commissioned by the University concludes that Harvard officials did not knowingly break faculty email privacy policy when they secretly probed resident deans’ email accounts last September in an effort to plug a leak of information connected to the Government 1310 cheating scandal.

With Time Short and Student Trust in Administrators Low, Pfister Seeks To Build Community

The new interim Dean of the College faces the challenge of leading a student body that has grown skeptical of administrators without knowing how long he may have to effect change.

Laid-Off Workers Trade Goodbyes as the Inn at Harvard Closes Its Doors

Nearly 22 years ago, Mustapha Jorti helped welcome the first guests to the Inn at Harvard. On Monday, the University-owned hotel’s final day of operation, he manned a quiet front desk as the Inn’s last patrons checked out of their rooms.

Donald Pfister, Former Ad Board Review Committee Chair, To Serve as Interim Dean of the College

Donald H. Pfister, a longtime Harvard faculty member and administrator who chaired a committee that reviewed the Administrative Board from 2008-2010, will serve as interim Dean of the College as it begins to explore a proposal to give students a role in adjudicating some disciplinary cases, Harvard announced Tuesday.

Pfister, Interim Dean of the College

Donald H. Pfister, a longtime Harvard faculty member and administrator who chaired a committee that reviewed the Administrative Board in 2008-2010, will serve as interim Dean of the College.

Associate Dean Who 'Pinch-Hit' for Transitioning OSL To Depart

Associate Dean of Student Life Kimberly A. Pacelli, the administrator who helped guide the Office of Student Life while it had no head, will leave Harvard on July 19 to become senior associate dean of student affairs at Bowdoin College.

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Some students say that the dearth of private common rooms in Old Quincy, the first building to undergo renovation under House renewal, does not allow them to socialize on their own terms.

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As Harvard undertakes extensive renovations on its undergraduate Houses, spatial changes intended to improve the quality of physical accommodations have the potential to alter the way students interact with their community.

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Some suggest that the practice of circulating lists of easy classes indicates a growing concern with transcripts and post-college pressures to have good grades.

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Though the Undergraduate Council led by Tara Raghuveer '14 and Jen Q. Zhu '14 has vocally pressured the administration on certain student issues, the student body still remains at the whims of administrators when it comes to pushing for policy change.

Building a Community

Harvard's first director of BGLTQ student life, Vanidy "Van" Bailey, has prioritized forging connections across the University.