Word: 27th
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...Dunn notes that engaging the attention of Harvard’s 27th President early on is essential...
...typical with many of Harvard’s “secret” files, they are sealed for 80 years—not to be read or opened until the year 2071. If precedent is any indication, the records of the search for Harvard’s 27th president won’t be unsealed until the year Summers himself would turn...
When University President Neil L. Rudenstine announced last May that he would resign effective June 30, 2001, it soon became clear that the search for Harvard’s 27th president would be unlike any other search before. The nine-month long search for Harvard’s 27th president would take the nine search committee members all over the country—from Stanford to Cornell to Columbia and Yale—and would require months of research and thousands of pages of secret communications. Technology would be used as never before, and for the first time, a woman...
Finally, the Corporation’s newest member arrived just in time for the search. Appointed earlier in the year, lawyer Conrad K. Harper’s term on the Corporation began July 1, 2000—exactly one year before the 27th president would take office. The task was daunting for the new member...
Harvard’s search process is unique in many ways, not the least of which is its insular and secretive nature. Unlike schools like Princeton, no faculty or students were formally involved in the search for the 27th president. The choice was up to the nine search committee members—most of whom graduated from Harvard during the Eisenhower administzation...