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When the time comes to replace Rudenstine, will students sit on the search committee? The Harvard Corporation, the six-member governing board that is the University's highest decision-making body, denied this request in 1991 when the search was on to replace then-President Derek C. Bok. But times have changed. Ten years ago, Harvard was looking for a president who could lead a $2.6 billion Capital Campaign. Now, Rudenstine says, a new planning process must begin--one that will take the spotlight off of fundraising and put the focus back on initiatives in higher education. Undergraduate and graduate...
Although he originally declined the offer--joking that he was only called after every other candidate had said no--he says he was swayed by the calls he received the following day from the dean of the Faculty and then-President Derek C. Bok. Today, while the University president still makes the official appointment of masters, all agree that the role of the dean of the Faculty and president has become mostly a formality because the duty has been delegated to the dean of the College...
...directed searches for the two most recent University presidents--in 1991, when President Neil L. Rudenstine was selected, and two decades earlier, when former President Derek C. Bok was chosen...
...while Fineberg's name has cropped up on most prediction lists, he will face a stiff, competitive presidential search process. The search committee may decide to promote one of Harvard's deans--former president Derek C. Bok was dean of the law school--or find a candidate from another university like Rudenstine, a onetime Princeton provost...
...foremost, we believe that a university president should present a sweeping vision of how young men and women should be educated--the sort of vision that breathed life into the tenures of past Harvard presidents, Charles W. Eliot 1853, A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877 and Derek C. Bok...