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...with the committee in the fall for fear that her commitment to Princeton would be questioned if word got out, according to an individual who spoke with a committee member. “She simply preferred the job she had,” said former Princeton President William G. Bowen, who provided unofficial counsel to Harvard search committee members. “She was just successful and happy in what she was doing...
Cech drew support from two heavy weights of higher education: Bowen, the former Princeton chief, and former University of Chicago President Hanna H. Gray, who chaired the Howard Hughes board of trustees. As a former member of the Harvard Corporation, Gray was one of the key backers of Larry Summers in the 2001 presidential search...
...book “The Game of Life,” widely considered to be the seminal study of college sports, former Princeton University president William G. Bowen and James L. Shulman observe an interesting dynamic. While minorities in the general Ivy admissions pool benefit from a so-called “mosaic” approach that values racial background, without any regulations on scores required—in so many words, affirmative action—the formulaic principles of athletics recruiting do not have the same degree of consideration...
...Committee member H. Kent Bowen, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, said new points of contact are emerging between traditional disciplines, especially in the sciences...
...Bowen called this week’s announcements “an honest signal that with curiosity, and some luck, and some forethought, we might be able to empower people to find new opportunities at the interfaces...