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...donate to a university where the faculty can seemingly force out a president.Yet another camp of alumni, critics of Summers, suggested that his resignation could spark donations. But to many donors who were excited by Summers’ agenda—a plan that includes a major expansion into Allston, a focus on undergraduate life and teaching, and an emphasis on research in the life sciences—the key question is whether his vision for the University will continue to influence its next leader. Given the widely-held belief that the agenda of the president has become the agenda...
Council members protested Summers’ management of several University initiatives, including development in Allston and what they perceived as a faltering curricular review...
...anything like solving the problem, but it’s an increase.” Though it has not received final approval yet, Mansbridge says the office of diversity and development is also vying for space to build a new day-care center on the University’s Allston campus.STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANTThe Office of Faculty Development and Diversity collected demographic data that compares Harvard’s schools to each other and the University overall to peer institutions, investigating questions such as the number of tenure offers made to males and females and the time it takes until promotion.In addition...
...after frequent tussles with a Faculty affronted by his leadership style. But during his tenure, Summers for a time did as the Corporation had hoped, using his pulpit to extend Harvard’s international reach, push for a more rigorous undergraduate curriculum, and endorse a bolder vision for Allston development. Summers’ roadmap for the University, professors and administrators say, will be completed by future Harvard presidents. In a way, Summers’ agenda is now the University’s. In this selection of articles, The Crimson delves into the ways in which Summers has attempted...
...whittled down to the single individual who will ultimately set up shop in Mass. Hall.The stakes are high. The completion of Summers’ unrealized vision for the University—the pursuit of reforms to the undergraduate experience and curriculum, a formidable expansion across the Charles River into Allston, and the prospect of a record-setting capital campaign—may ironically be left to his successor, who must chart the future direction of the University.“This is the most important decision that this group of overseers will make in their lifetime,” says...