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...have said that they intend to stay put.Strong candidates abound at Harvard as well, including Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust, who presided over the University’s high-profile diversity initiative last year. Elena Kagan has won over students and faculty at Harvard Law School since her appointment in 2002. And Provost Steven E. Hyman has been an influential force in the University’s administration, with oversight of all of Harvard’s academic programs as well as the expansion into Allston.The most high-profile Harvard insider whose name has been mentioned is Corporation member...
School of Public Health (SPH) faculty members fumed after Summers seized control in 2004 of an SPH professor’s federal grant to fight AIDS in Africa. And Summers’ decision to appoint political scientist Alan A. Altshuler as dean of the Graduate School of Design rankled professors who would have preferred an architect...
...working with first-year students, the APO asked the nine members of that Board to join the SAB. All other undergraduates were sent emails by the Freshman Dean’s Office and the Houses asking them to apply for the remaining positions. More than 160 applied. We appointed about 40 students as full members of the SAB. The Board also includes guest members representing faculty, administrators, proctors, the FDO, the Bureau of Study Counsel, and the APO. The Board worked closely with the APO to shape the peer advising program, recruit and train peer advisers, create various materials...
...have someone who’s going to be able to get on top of the job very quickly,” Bok said in an interview Monday. “Jeremy will understand how to perform the day he walks into the job.”The appointment marks the long-awaited culmination of a search that began when William C. Kirby resigned in January under pressure from University President Lawrence H. Summers. And it leaves the University’s largest school in the hands of two Harvard veterans—Bok, 76, was president for two decades...
Reflecting on his decision to appoint an interim dean, Bok said Monday, “I think you should only appoint a permanent dean, when you’re interim president, if there is a very strong consensus choice—when you can actually say that it would be almost certain that the next president would want this person as dean...