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...Wisse oddly attests, much of the student body strongly supported Summers throughout his saga even though he endeavored to shake up the entire University. Nevertheless, even in this situation, the changes supported by students were measured and gradual; Summers’ initiatives, such as the new Curricular Review and Allston planning, were long-term and much-debated transformations, not quick or erratic fixes...
...University publicly acknowledged yesterday that it had made a new offer to take over a prime spot of Allston land last Thursday, marking the second major move in Harvard’s development of its new campus in less than two weeks. Late last month, Harvard announced the future site and architect of the first building for its new campus in Allston. Harvard representatives said yesterday they would swap five acres of land at the University-owned Brighton Mills Shopping Center and provide “resources” to construct a new low-income apartment complex there in exchange...
...think he can take the best of what Summers started—curriculum reform, wider financial aid, more support for international study, and expansion to Allston—and keep it moving in a way that won’t have to be revisited by his permanent replacement. (On Allston, placing the new Harvard Stem Cell Insitute on Western Ave. and tapping an avant-garde German architect to design it seems like an excellent start. Both faculty and students will be a lot more excited about moving to the other side of the Charles if it looks visually stunning...
...deal with the unique goal of responding to an unhappy faculty,” says Graff. It seems like anyone would jump at the chance to become president of Harvard University. Recent events and complications, however, may make possible candidates wary.The implementation of Summers’ plans for the Allston Campus will fall to his successor, who might have little input in the development. In addition, the incoming president will have to deal with the Curricular Review, which Summers put into motion. According to Menand, recent events are “unfortunate because the momentum was there in spite...
...solve them; if Harvard is to grow, academics and administration cannot help but intersect. Increasing international opportunities, channeling more research funding into the sciences, and coordinating academic work across disciplines and schools requires exactly the support an intermediary administration provides. And then there’s Allston, the first University-wide project to be planned and budgeted as a single entity. Without a president who will continue to push forward on these sorts of initiatives—initiatives that cannot help but dictate academic priorities—Harvard will stagnate. So where does that leave us? Administrators can be uninformed...