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...during his five-year tenure—more than either of his two immediate predecessors did in their first half-decades. Summers said at the press conference that he had discussed Light’s appointment with the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing body??€”and incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok, who will take the reins of the University after Summers leaves the presidency June 30. Summers did not indicate the extent of Bok’s involvement in the decision-making process, but he did say that Light...
...time on the Corporation—the University’s highest governing body??€”Stone served on the search committee that named Neil L. Rudenstine to be Harvard’s 26th president in 1991. And he led the panel that ultimately picked Lawrence H. Summers as its 27th...
...money, which has been specifically designated on students’ termbills for distribution by the UC (and not by the College). Since students pay this fee with the understanding that their elected representatives will decide how to spend the money, the UC should not defer to any other body??€™s standards in deciding how to distribute students’ money.Under the current standards, some groups that are recognized by the CCL may not qualify for UC funding. And that’s the way it should be. Last November, the UC suspended its bylaws in order to fund...
...graduate student. In a letter sent on Thursday, the student leaders asked the University to skirt tradition and include graduate representation on the nine-member search committee, which currently includes only the six members of the Harvard Corporation—the University’s top governing body??€”and three representatives from the less powerful Board of Overseers. The University has said a student advisory committee will offer advice in the search, but Graduate Council President John W. Kalis, a second-year student at the Divinity School, said graduate students need a more powerful voice...
...Gateway City: both Harvard and St. Louis love tradition. St. Louis expresses its love for tradition by continuing with political institutions and folkways long after their proper expiration date. Mired in inertia, Harvard is conservative in everything from its housing policies to its investment strategies to its student body??€™s simultaneous love of liberalism and objection to all things radical.Of course, Harvard students tend to favor social change far more than the voters of Missouri. But Harvard students have two distinctive characteristics that limit their tolerance for rapid change. First, students who make it to Harvard have done...