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...certain that one of them will be named Harvard president,” writes Gardner in an e-mail. “The knowledge base and personal qualities desired are sufficiently rare that only a few people qualify.”Prominent leaders in higher education today include anthropologist Alison F. Richard, head of the University of Cambridge; Stanford Provost John Etchemendy, a professor of philosophy; University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman; Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman; and Shirley Ann Jackson, a physicist and the president of Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.Other candidates whose names have been bandied...
...look over the proposals in light of what faculty have said and to see what might be done in way of shaping something that might be brought up for vote in the fall,” says Menand, who will be co-chairing the group with Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, also a former Gang of Five member. According to Secretary of the Faculty David B. Fithian, the other members of the committee are Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94, Ford Professor of Human Evolution David...
...Alison Dundes Renteln ’81, then-president of RUS, called for swifter changes, including a lit path to the Quad. Renteln told The Crimson that she was “afraid we may be getting into a bureaucratic snarl...
...outline,” Bok wrote in a letter to the editor.“The statements were alarming to people,” Klitgaard now says. “That’s the way news works. They see a couple of points.”Alison Dundes Renteln ’81, the president of the Radcliffe Union of Students that year, recalls fighting for greater minority representation during her time on campus.“We were expressing support for affirmative action at a time when that was controversial,” Renteln says. She recalls advocating...
...administration three weeks after the complaint was issued. The students wrote that they were “deeply concerned about the disproportionately small number of women and minorities at the school,” although they did not directly express approval of WEAL’s complaint. Alison Dundes Renteln ’81, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) during the 1980-81 school year says there was “a lot of concern that there were so few women on the faculty” of the University at the time. “There...