November 2019

Take Note: A New Head of Digital Preservation

Stephen Abrams has joined Preservation Services as Head of Digital Preservation. Reporting to the Head of Preservation Services, the Head of Digital Preservation develops, leads, and administers programs and services that meet and anticipate the digital preservation needs of Harvard’s library community. Stephen joins us from the University of California Curation Center at the California Digital Library. As associate director, he had responsibility for strategic planning, innovation, and...

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Evaluations: Making the Most of Student Feedback

Collecting fruit

After the semester ends, students will be asked to evaluate their courses confidentially. You will receive a link to your course feedback via email once the evaluation period ends. Evaluations are a great way for you to get a sense of your students’ experiences and shape any future courses you may teach at the Extension School. But, it can also be nerve-wracking to read feedback on something you’ve spent a lot of time on and is close to your heart.

Reading your course evaluations doesn’t have to be a painful exercise. Here are some ways to make the most out of student feedback for your future teaching:

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GMAS Release 1_52 available Monday, November 18th

GMAS has a scheduled release this weekend. The application will be unavailable starting at 7pm on Friday, November 15th. The new release will be available at the start of business on Monday, November 18th. This release includes integration with ESTR, adding project summary to the initial and renewal request entry screen, adding the A21 code at the top of the segment homepage, and more. For full release notes, please visit GMAS Release 1_52...

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AIC: A Summer in Albania Working for Investment Capabilities Development

By Damian Galinsky

According to CID’s growth diagnostic findings on Albania, the country has the need to diversify and increase the complexity of the economic base.

As a Harvard Kennedy School student, I spent last summer as a CID intern working on the initial asset analysis and project selection for the Albanian Investment Corporation (AIC). The main objective of AIC is improving growth in Albania through the generation of the capability to identify, prepare, and develop vital projects for Albania.

My analysis was carried out by working...

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Learning Policy in Practice: Insights from the Growth Lab Summer Interns in Albania

Prepared by Daniela Muhaj and Jessie Lu

Town square in Albania with a statue

Three Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) students spent this past summer in Albania as Growth Lab interns, working with local counterparts to develop and implement programs on the ground and making the leap from the classroom to learning policy in practice. Recently, we hosted our interns – Damian Galinsky, Uriel Kejsefman, and Shivani Mishra – in a panel discussion to talk about the work they conducted and its role in the broader Growth Lab Albania strategy. They spoke to their experiences living and working in Albania as well as to lessons learned when trying to translate academic and theoretical insights into policy actions. Key highlights from this conversation are summarized below.... Read more about Learning Policy in Practice: Insights from the Growth Lab Summer Interns in Albania