Beton Brut said:
ablarc said:
a few years ago when I worked on Larry Sommers' "education plantation"
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Not much to tell (I'll try to answer your question AND stay on-topic)...
I worked as a publications designer at a former women's college (Nee Radcliffe) that was absorbed in 1999 by the University...Working at Harvard was a really transformative experience for a number of reasons (Lunch? Let's go to the Fogg!), but the tone changed when Neil Rudenstine left and Sommers took over...Indeed, Dr. Drew Faust, Harvard's freshly appointed President, came to Harvard as the "Inaugural" Dean of the newly-branded Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study -- within two years, the adult ed. unit where I designed course catalogs and other marketing collateral was rolled up like a dorm-room carpet on moving-out day, along with the entire IT department, and about a dozen folks in Development...To my knowledge, no one was offered placement elsewhere, and the Union of Clerical & Technical Workers cost me $13 / month and offered zero value in the way of opportunities to remain at Harvard...
Concurrently, the Square, one of America's best urban spaces, was already coming unraveled, with the Wursthaus replaced by an Abercrombie & Fitch, and rising rents in University-owned buildings squeezing out small businesses...Bye-bye Bow & Arrow...Happy trails, Second Coming Records...So long, Wordsworth...Now the Greenhouse is gone...It's a miracle that places like Bartley's, Charlie's, Grendal's, and Darwin's have survived...Someplace is becoming anyplace...
