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Thomas R. Cech, the head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a leading contender in Harvard’s presidential search, has bowed out of the race to be the University’s 28th chief...
...relinquish his position on a major corporate board. Houghton revealed last week that he will resign in late April as non-executive chairman of Corning Incorporated’s Board of Directors. Houghton, who is also the chairman of the search committee charged with choosing Harvard’s 28th president, has worked at the research and technology company for almost four decades. He joined the Harvard Corporation seven months before retiring as chair and CEO of Corning in 1996. However, financial difficulties at the company prompted his return as non-excecutive chairman of the board...
...mail to the affected students in which she dubbed the incident a “fiasco” and sought to “personally apologize for the failure.” Kagan is currently one of the leading candidates in the University’s search for its 28th president. “The way in which the system worked on Tuesday was unacceptable—for any educational institution, let alone for Harvard,” Kagan wrote. “Tuesday’s grade-viewing demonstrated continuing serious problems in the system, which will...
...similar juncture today. In five short months, there will again be a new president, the institution is direly in need of change, and the faculty is entrenched in its ways and on the whole resistant to much needed progress. It is hard to fathom Harvard’s 28th president being quite as blunt as Eliot was the outset of his administration—particularly in light of the events that transpired one year ago, which abruptly ended Lawrence H. Summers’ short tenure. Harvard is, however, badly in need of another Eliot, a dreamer who will take risks...
...Several colleagues say that Faust wants to be Harvard’s 28th leader. And her wish may soon come true. Two individuals familiar with the search committee’s activities have told The Crimson that Faust is one of a handfull of front-runners for the presidency...