Dear colleagues, I write to share that Lawrence Bobo, Dean of Social Science and the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, will be taking a personal leave for the spring 2025 term. I look forward to welcoming him back as dean for the fall 2025 term. We are very fortunate that…Continue Reading Dean of Social Science Spring Leave
Ketanji Brown Jackson? Present!
Supreme Court justice revisits Michael Sandel’s class, which left her with lessons that lasted long beyond her time in it as first-year Read more in the Harvard Gazette…Continue Reading Ketanji Brown Jackson? Present!
FAS Faculty Meeting recap
Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Hopi Hoekstra presided over a robust agenda at Tuesday’s Faculty Meeting. In opening remarks, Hoekstra addressed last month’s library protests, acknowledging the “broad set of perspectives” and that “reasonable people can disagree on where to draw the line” surrounding time, place, and manner guidelines for…Continue Reading FAS Faculty Meeting recap
Remarks at FAS Faculty Meeting
In recent days, I’ve heard a wide-range of views from colleagues about the protests in libraries across campus, and I want to take a moment in my dean’s business today to provide some clarity – about our rules and their purpose, about what happened, and about my responsibilities. Let me start by talking about the…Continue Reading Remarks at FAS Faculty Meeting