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Tag: Office of Faculty Development and Diversity
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Nation & World
Faculty diversity continues to grow
Harvard continues to make progress in its goal to diversify its faculty, with numbers of women and minorities reaching record highs.
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Nation & World
Progress on faculty diversity
Harvard’s faculty is more diverse than ever, with women making up 30 percent of tenured and tenure-track faculty and minorities making up 23 percent.
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Nation & World
Progress in diversifying faculty
At Harvard, the percentages of women and minorities on the faculty have reached new highs, study says.
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Nation & World
New faculty plant roots
The New Faculty Institute welcomed new teachers to campus. Part welcome exercise, part information session, part networking opportunity, the faculty forum was designed to make the 64 assistant professors, four associate professors, and 41 professors new to campus feel at home.
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Nation & World
Help with kids. And pets. And …
The WATCH Portal, an online network launched last year to connect Harvard parents with University-affiliated baby sitters, is expanding its marketplace to include tutoring, pet care, and a host of other services for busy employees in a pinch.
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Nation & World
Helping teachers hone their techniques
Ronald Heifetz of HKS led the final seminar in this year’s “Talking about Teaching” series, a University-wide effort to explore pedagogical connections across disciplines and Schools.
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Nation & World
All in the Harvard family
The WATCH Portal, a new online child-care service, aims to connect Harvard parents with a vast pool of potential babysitters, from undergraduates and graduate students to the teenage children of employees.
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Nation & World
Talking with their mouths full
More than 50 faculty members and guests gathered at the Harvard Faculty Club on Feb. 24 for “Fish Markets and the Art of Sushi Making,” a seminar and demonstration organized by the Office of the Provost.
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Nation & World
46 faculty enter retirement program
Forty-six faculty members have elected to take advantage of Harvard’s faculty retirement program, with longer phased retirement options the most popular choice.
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Nation & World
Learning in the labs
This summer 300 undergraduates from across the country have come to Harvard to pursue research opportunities. Long a mecca for students seeking such experiences, the University’s various research programs existed independently until this year. Now, they’re working in tandem with the Office of the Provost.
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Nation & World
Faculty diversity on the rise
Harvard University has made steady progress toward a more diverse faculty and the numbers of women and minority members stand at all-time highs, according to the annual report of the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (FD&D).
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Nation & World
New faculty introduced
Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Kirsten Bomblies is among 70 new faculty members who are joining the University’s various Schools this year. With the start of the new year, Harvard has hired 41 new assistant professors, six associate professors, and 23 new full professors, and promoted 20 existing faculty members to tenured professor…
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Nation & World
Judith D. Singer named senior vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity
Judith D. Singer, the James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and former academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), has been named senior vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard University, Provost Steven E. Hyman announced today.
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Nation & World
Hammonds opens faculty diversity forum
Evelynn Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies and senior vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity (FD&D) opened a three-day forum last Friday (April 11) at the Charles Hotel titled “Advancing and Empowering Scholars: Transforming the Landscape of the American Academy Through Faculty Diversity.”