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...context of the practices of competing institutions. In 2000, Princeton University’s 18-person presidential search committee included three students and five faculty members, while Stanford University’s 14-person committee included two students and six faculty members. The most recent presidential searches at Columbia University and Duke University also included both students and faculty on the formal recommending body. Harvard stood as a lone holdout in its own 2000 presidential search. It’s committee: six members of the Corporation and three members of the Overseers...
...Reeves was less interested in being a poster child for Harvard’s gay community and more interested in giving back to the Boston community. He and Johnson became particularly close during their work with the Columbia Point Program at the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), but while a small, organized gay student voice developed, Reeves preferred to define himself, rather than be defined by the gay movement...
...effort to expand black history beyond the black community itself, Campbell contacted her friends at other schools—such as Williams College, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and MIT—to coordinate the event...
...places,” Orfield said. “If the instructional program isn’t that good, students need to have a voice.” Harvard wouldn’t be the first school to establish a University senate—many institutions, including Stanford and Columbia, already have such bodies.A former member of Stanford’s business faculty, Rajiv Lal, who is now the Roth professor of retailing at Harvard Business School, said that “when FAS had a meeting and a vote of no confidence, there was no process by which...
...Harvard governing system that there’s no mechanism to find out what the University faculty thinks,” Altshuler told The Crimson. We agree. Many other large and notable American universities employ bodies of this type in order to facilitate inter-school communication and cohesiveness. Stanford, Columbia, New York University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Kansas all have representative bodies that cross traditional divisional lines. Harvard too has a provision for a University Council in its faculty handbook, a provision which has collected dust for too long and needs to be activated...