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...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...
...reflect on experience.”GEN ED IN LIMBOBeyond the good-byes of the two most powerful members of the Faculty, the meeting foreshadowed the looming debate over what will succeed the Core Curriculum.Kirby announced that incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok had called on the dean to appoint a committee of professors to draft legislation for the fall on the next system of general education. But the shape of that system, as speeches in the last half hour of yesterday’s meeting demonstrated, is far from clear.Two professors who have played key roles in the curricular...
...Winthrop from 1935 to 1937. A student in the House, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. ’38, “became one of my closest friends,” Galbraith later told C-SPAN. Joseph’s younger brother, John F. Kennedy ’40, would appoint Galbraith as ambassador to India...
...most important thing a Harvard president does,” says Summers, who adds that he turns down roughly one in 10 tenure cases that reach his office.GATHERING SUPPORTLike a college applicant, each associate faculty member entering the tenure review process in the penultimate year of his appointment must condense the record of his achievements in scholarship, teaching, and citizenship for a dossier.Unlike a college application, though, the manila folder containing a tenure candidate’s dossier may be up to 10 inches thick. According to the Appointment Handbook for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it may enclose...