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...president has been very aggressive in seeking faculty input on Allston,” he says. “There is a lot of information involved in making decisions for Allston. The average faculty member has put in nowhere near [the requisite] effort, and has a much weaker grasp of the issues and so you can’t expect them to make the central decisions...
...invoke powers granted in the Council’s charter that have long gone unexercised. Both groups refer to a clause that grants the Council advisory power over “allocations of space” as evidence that it should have more of a decision-making role in Allston development...
...studied at Harvard during a time when the University was undergoing an (ostensibly) comprehensive curricular review, when the Allston campus was in its earliest planning stages, when the Faculty voted lack of confidence in its own president. We studied at Harvard during a time when marriage between gay and lesbian partners became legal in Massachusetts, when the U.S. invaded Iraq in a so-called preemptive strike, when George W. Bush was reelected in one of the most contested and contentious presidential elections to date. And of course we studied during the time when the Twin Towers were toppled...
From meeting with faculty to science planning to Allston development, Hyman kept the ball rolling, helping prevent the University—and Summers’ presidency—from screeching to a halt...
Hyman led many of Mass. Hall’s major activities this semester, including the release of the Allston Science and Technology Task Force’s academic blueprint and the expansion of the central administration to include three more senior posts overseeing faculty recruitment, Harvard’s international activities, and University-wide research policy...