Word: consensuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different fronts throughout the University, the interests of the two collided during the year. Junior faculty, undergraduates, pro-divestment alumni raised the perennial protest of University policies, and yet many felt frustrated by what one disgruntled Board of Overseers member called "the tyranny of consensus." Harvard, they said, did not encourage dissent, but rather tried, behind-the-scenes, to dissuade the dissenters. Success for these outsiders was measured in small victories--the promotion of a junior faculty member, the election of a progressive overseer, the hiring of a woman or a minority...
Both titles are strangely appropriate to Lee's tenure as this year's chair of the Undergraduate Council. For much of the year, Lee managed to orchestrate an unprecedented degree of consensus during council members' often contentious searches for common ground...
...fact, Verba, a top contender for dean of the Faculty when Spence was appointed five years ago keeps adding administrative posts to his resume. And many of his colleagues say Verba's successes result because he has the connections and the consensus-building skills necessary to push measures through the tangle of Harvard's decentralized bureaucracy...
...fact, Bok's colleagues say the 59-year-old president sees himself more as a judge than a consensus-builder, relying on his own intensive legalistic analysis to determine what is right and wrong...
...report drew attention in the national press, and Bell says that although he wrote the report, Watson was "greatly responsible" for building up consensus for it among Harvard's Black professionals...