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Another past trend is an understandable preference for a president from academia. In the search for a successor to Nathan M. Pusey '28, the search committee ruled out any candidates from outside the academic world. That attitude seems likely to continue...
...such possibility: Condoleezza Rice, formerly Stanford's provost and currently Texas Gov. George W. Bush's foreign policy adviser. One of a small pool of minority administrators in academia, she has taken a year off from Stanford to assist the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidency. But she lacks one crucial factor: a Harvard connection...
...some, Clark too raises a concern with FAS; they say that without Faculty approval, it could be difficult for him to become president. For FAS, traditionally the University's center of pure scholarship and academia, a president from the business school--with business sensibilities and motivations--might be a bitter pill to swallow...
...might think that being a professor at Harvard University would be enough. Receiving tenure at the most prestigious university in the country used to be the pinnacle of a career in academia...
...experience like that is as unique as you'll find in your time at Harvard, where it often seems that academia--amidst a fairly homogenous population--is one's only road...