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Departments Instruct Graduate Students On Sexual Harassment

February 29, 2016

In the wake of the recent release of a campus sexual climate survey, some departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences aim to clarify reporting procedures and promote clear departmental expectations regarding sexual harassment.

Undergraduate Council Caps Theater Funding

February 29, 2016

The Undergraduate Council’s Finance Committee recently passed legislation to cap theater performance grants to $16,500 per semester, after funding towards theater groups spiked to over $35,000 last academic year.

Harvard House Masters Now Called ‘Faculty Deans’

February 29, 2016

​Each of Harvard’s 24 House masters will now be called a “Faculty Dean,” Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith wrote in an email to undergraduates and FAS members early Wednesday evening.

The costs of inequality: A goal of justice, a reality of unfairness

The costs of inequality: A goal of justice, a reality of unfairness

February 29, 2016

Harvard Gazette | Spotlights research in criminal justice by Bruce Western (Professor of Sociology, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy, and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy), Devah Pager (Professor of Sociology and Public Policy), Phillip Atiba Goff (Visiting scholar in the Malcolm Wiener Center and Co-founder of the Center for Policing Equity), and Vinny Schiraldi (Senior research fellow at the HKS Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management and former commissioner of the New York City Department of Probation).  Fifth in a series on what Harvard scholars are doing to understand and find solutions to problems of inequality. This article also appeared at US News and World Report.

Trump will win or lose. Either way, the Koch network will shape the Republican Party

Trump will win or lose. Either way, the Koch network will shape the Republican Party

February 29, 2016

Washington Post | Alexander Hertel Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) and Theda Skocpol (Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology) are interviewed about their research on how Koch brothers-funded organizations have been changing the Republican Party in profound ways. Interviewed by political scientist Henry Farrell of George Washington University.