Word: dean
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...although the selection of Vorenberg's successor has so far overshadowed the activity of a planning committee, formed last February, the committee's work may prove more influential in the long run. "The new dean may have special interests they [sic] want to push, but the long-range planning is something that has been ongoing and is generally agreed on by everyone," says Associate Dean Andrew L. Kaufman...
Kaufman and Associate Dean Frank E. A. Sander are leading the comprehensive effort to review the physical plant, educational and clinical programs, financial aid and other aspects of the Law School...
Last fall some members of the Undergraduate Council's residential committee met with Assistant Dean for the House System Thomas A. Dingman '67 and voiced a concern that turning the heat down at 11 p.m. did not match the students' working hours. After an investigation of the heating policy, the council's Committee on House Life agreed to the change, Dingman said...
...while the Core review may find the problems, it is unlikely that the faculty, led by Dean A. Michael Spence, will immediately implement changes to solve them. Most of the faculty's agenda deals with long-term issues whose resolution is slowed by the long and torturous committee process...
When Spence was appointed as dean five years ago this June, he said he would try to improve the chances that Harvard's junior faculty would receive tenure here. However, promotion from within is still rare, and junior faculty members--such as the English Department's Deborah E. Nord, whose tenure is being considered this spring--are not optimistic about their chances...