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University People Arately, Shar­On Block, Who Had Been Principal Dunster Departures an Interim Basis Secretary of Labor.…Sep- University People arately, Shar on Block, who had been principal Dunster Departures an interim basis. She has deputy assistant secre- Dunster House faculty deans Roger B. been director of graduate tary for policy and senior Porter, IBM professor of business and gov- studies for the classics de- counselor to the secre- ernment, and Ann Porter announced in partment, and in 2015 won tary at the Department U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE early March that they would step down at a faculty prize for men- of Labor under Presi- Alexander Acosta the end of this academic year, concluding toring graduate students. dent Barack Obama, J.D. 16 years of service. They took the House, Meng is pursuing research MITCHELL/HPAC STEPHANIE ’91, has been appointed executive direc- and its students and staff, through the first pertinent to statistics and Xiao-Li Meng tor of Harvard Law School’s Labor and whole-House renewal, under the continu- data science, and assum- Worklife Program, which focuses on ing renovation program (reported in detail ing leadership roles in labor law, training union leaders, and re- at harvardmag.com/new-dunster-15). two statistics professional lated issues. societies during the year. Dean Dench One statistic he leaves to …and Other D.C. News With Xiao-Li Meng, Jones professor of interim dean Dench: the Tom Perez, M.P.P-J.D. statistics, taking sabbatical during the planned reduction in the LINCOLN/HPAC ROSE ’87, who served as Sec- 2017-2018 academic year, Emma Dench, size of the entering GSAS Emma Dench retary of Labor in the McLean professor of ancient and modern cohort, for financial reasons (see below). Obama administration, history and of the classics, will assume his has been elected chair of administrative role as dean of the Gradu- Labor Leaders… the Democratic National U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) on President Donald J. Trump has nomi- Committee and charged Tom Perez nated Alexander Acosta ’90, J.D. with revitalizing the party.…Separately, ’94—the dean of Florida Interna- President Trump’s initial choice to be tional University Law School and Secretary of the Navy, private-equity a former member of the National executive Philip Bilden, M.B.A. ’91, took Labor Relations Board (among himself out of the running, citing finan- other public-service roles) as U.S. cial and family obligations. WRITERS’ REWARDS: Coolidge professor of history Maya Jasanoff, author of the National Book Critics Circle-winning Liberty’s Exiles, on loyalists during the American Revolution, has been awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize, created to support writers and administered by Yale; it comes with a $165,000 hono- rarium. Her next book, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, will be published in November.…Separately, professor of history Jane Kamensky, Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library, has received the New-York Historical Society’s $50,000 annual book prize in American history for A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley. “Facing Harvard” (November-December 2016, page 42), on Copley’s Maya Jasanoff Harvard portraits, complements her research for the book. ROSE LINCOLN/HPAC ROSE Graduate Admissions FAS dean Michael D. Smith as attributing among other steps: summer research fund- the downsizing to “the flat endowment dis- ing, fifth-year and dissertation-completion in Lower Gear tribution that we will see next year and the support, professional-development funding, THE HARVARD CRIMSON reported in mid Feb- drying up of some funds that we’ve used and financial assistance for students expect- ruary that the number of admissions to in the past to help admit some students,” ing or adopting a child. the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences whose education and living expenses are “In the process of developing the fall 2017 (GSAS) would be reduced 4.4 percent, af- typically covered by the University. admissions targets in conjunction with the fecting students seeking to enroll this com- A statement provided by FAS elaborated graduate financial-aid budget,” the statement ing fall. The reduction reflects an adjust- that the GSAS “is fundamentally commit- continued, “it became clear that a modest ment by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences ted to ensuring that current graduate stu- year-over-year reduction in class size would (FAS) to the prospective flattening of the dents thrive during their time at Harvard.… be necessary in order to ensure no disrup- distribution of funds from the endowment, Most Ph.D. students now receive a generous tion of support for current students,” driven the faculty’s largest source of revenue, fol- financial-aid package guaranteed for at least in part by the endowment results. “GSAS, the lowing recent weak investment results (see five years, which pays for tuition, fees, health FAS dean, the [engineering and applied sci- “The Endowment Ebbs,” November-Decem- insurance, and other benefits.” It also cited ences] dean, the FAS divisional deans, and the ber 2016, page 18). The newspaper quoted recent improvements in support, including, offices of the president and provost worked Harvard Magazine 23 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 JOHN HARVARD'S JOURNAL together to ensure the smallest possible per- have any effect on the availability of teach- and Applied Sciences (see “Academic Allston, centage reduction in admission targets for ing assistants or section sizes. At Last,” July-August 2016, page 22), and per- FAS-based Ph.D. programs.” A final observation: this outcome illus- haps HBS support for the proposed Gateway Two points merit consideration. First, trates the overwhelming importance of the research building and data sciences, of import this does not appear to be an effort to down- endowment in funding the University and to both faculties (see page 27). size certain graduate programs where de- FAS (which derived 51 percent of its operat- Nohria also addressed the migration of the mand for academic hiring has diminished ing income from endowment distributions in school’s experience-based FIELD curricu- (notably, the humanities, languages, histo- fiscal year 2016). Even in a period when The lum into the fall and spring M.B.A. courses of ry, and related fields)—a subject of under- Harvard Campaign has raised well more than study; rapid change in executive education; standable anxiety within the affected fields. $7 billion in new gifts and pledges, core aca- and a goal of making the online HBX opera- Second, exactly how GSAS sets its ad- demic operations remain vulnerable to per- tion “cash-flow positive by 2019.” (Given that missions targets is as much an art as a sci- sistently weak endowment earnings. vj.s.r. HBX collects tuition for its courses—$1, 950 ence. Some tiny doctoral programs admit for the three-unit basic business-skills se- one or two candidates annually; others wel- Allston Ambitions quence—this hints at the costs of such of- come scores. The yearly allocation varies Harvard business school (HBS) dean ferings, and perhaps the continued reliance by program, prior enrollment yields among Nitin Nohria’s annual letter to his faculty is on philanthropy to support the University’s those admitted, new faculty appointments especially interesting this year. The headline HarvardX online courses; see next item.) (and leaves and retirements), funding vi- item—that HBS exceeded its $1-billion capi- Nohria also observed that the academic cissitudes, and so on. For whatever rea- tal campaign goal in 2016, and formally raised gaps between men and women in the M.B.A. son, GSAS is providing only the percent- it by $300 million—matters less than the in- program, and their different levels of satis- age guidance on admissions overall—not tended aims: more associate professorships faction, had been closed. He identified the specifying how many new graduate stu- and practitioner-teachers; more fellowships; need for additional support for students who dents it aims to admit, nor the absolute further flexible funding for innovation; and receive financial aid, and highlighted a fifti- change from last fall or any differential ef- “realizing the vision of One Harvard by sup- eth-anniversary celebration of the African- fects among disciplines. At least in the near porting work across the University and…in American Student Union, in 2018. vj.s.r. term, College officials have said that the re- Allston.” The latter may point to deepening duced graduate-student cohort should not engagement with the School of Engineering Online Updates The online version of “Super-Earths and Life,” by Phillips professor of astronomy Dimitar Sasselov, director of Harvard’s Origins of Life Initiative (see “Life’s Begin- nings,” September-October 2013, page 29), Explore More is the first HarvardX course to incorporate adaptive-learning technology that tailors Harvardmagazine.com brings you continuous coverage of content and exercises to student mastery of material. Early assessments demonstrate University and alumni news. Visit to find these stories and more: clear gains in learning and students’ speed through the course. As Schoenhof’s Shutters, a Look at the Turning to revenue-producing online Square’s Independent Bookstores programs: Georgia Tech has introduced a A business model struggles to stay alive. second, lower-cost master’s degree, in an- harvardmag.com/schoenhof-17 alytics, complementing its popular com- puter-science degree launched in 2014. Meanwhile, edX members including Bos- Harvard College’s Cross-Charles Classes ton University and Penn rolled out 16 more A tradition transformed, to prepare for blended online and in-person “micromas- undergraduate education across the river ters”—in career-oriented fields like data harvardmag.com/schedules-17 science, business analytics, and cybersecu- rity—bringing the roster of such revenue- generating courses to several dozen.
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