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...recent weeks, University of Chicago Provost Gerhard Casper has emerged as a potential front-runner...
...this point, Casper and Rudenstine appear to be the favorites, sources in the administration are saying. Both receive enthusiastic praise from their colleagues, and both boast valuable administrative experience...
...Casper was one of Chicago's most successful law school deans, and he led a record-breaking capital campaign for that school. Appointed provost only two years ago, the 53-year-old scholar is already considered by many to be University of Chicago President Hanna H. Gray's heir apparent...
...search committee members may have reason to be concerned with how Casper would fare here at Harvard--which has a much less centralized administrative structure than Chicago. In addition, Casper holds no Harvard degree and has no clear ties with any of the faculties...
...although both Hood and Casper have distinguished records in their academic fields and in university administration, neither has spent any time at Harvard, whether as a student or as a professor...