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SEPTEMBER 27, 2005 Kirby announced that he was slowing the pace of faculty hiring “to allow our financial resources to catch up.” The meeting came two months after Conrad K. Harper, the Harvard Corporation??s sole black member, resigned from the board. “The Corporation now looks more like Harvard in the 19th century than in the 21st century,” Matory said at the meeting...
...elected to the Corporation in December and formally began her term yesterday.At yesterday’s reception, both Houghton and Keohane said that the presidential search is still in its initial stages.“We’re just getting started,” said Houghton, the Corporation??s senior fellow.Amid the upbeat mood of the afternoon, Bok joked about one of the most pressing issues facing him. When asked about his ongoing search for someone to fill Kirby’s shoes when the dean steps down in June, Bok responded...
...Harvard Corporation??s senior fellow, James R. Houghton ’58, who is leading the search for University President Lawrence H. Summer’s successor, will remain Corning’s non-executive chairman of the board...
...government concentrator at Harvard, first-term School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 campaigned to get the University to withdraw its investments from South Africa. Today, Nolan says her participation in that movement, which led to the Harvard Corporation??s partial divestment from its South African stock in 1986, taught her that with enough support grassroots movements could be successful. “That gave me a sense that you can effect change if you have enough dedicated people working on it and you mobilize the entire community,” she says.A quarter-century...
...announcement, Summers has appointed seven major deans during his five-year tenure—more than either of his two immediate predecessors did in their first half-decades. Summers said at the press conference that he had discussed Light’s appointment with the Harvard Corporation??the University’s highest governing body—and incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok, who will take the reins of the University after Summers leaves the presidency June 30. Summers did not indicate the extent of Bok’s involvement in the decision-making process...