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Every organization, whether commercial, governmental, or academic, usually issue a report to its constituents, sponsors, and supporters reviewing the happenings, progresses, and visions for the future of the organization at end of each year. In academia, this usually happens in June. Such reports often only  serve its primary purpose of being a record rather than interesting reading.  This year, SEAS has the year end report in the form of an all school meeting with the entire meeting videotaped.

I thought the video might be of viewing  interest to ScienceNet reader and Chinese academic leaders for the following reasons:

1.    The Dean of SEAS reviews her vision of the role of Engineering and Applied Sciences in a full scale University (as opposed to an Institute of Technology).

2.    How to collaborate with other schools such as Law (HLS), Business (HBS),Government (HKS),  and Medicine (HMS)

3.    How engineering courses including laboratories and design projects are taught in a modern school

The video is 1 hour and 11 minutes long available at

http://media.seas.harvard.edu/content/communications/All_Hands_Large.mp4?play

Of course you don’t have to watch it all the way  from the beginning to the end. Use your computer curser to skip and repeat any portion of the video. The screen can also be enlarged to full screen mode for easy watching.