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...last few weeks of the search, Minow emerged as a top contender along with acting Dean Howell E. Jackson and Professors John F. Manning ’82 and David Wilkins ’77, according to individuals on the faculty familiar with the search. Faust made the final selection...
...central role in the Law School’s curricular reform process, a key element of Kagan’s legacy. Minow's experience there made her the preferred choice of some on the faculty, who said the curricular reform would require further attention from the next dean if it was to become a lasting part of the student experience. Those reforms are seen as one of the key reasons for rising student happiness at a school that a few years ago was all too well known for its neglect of student life...
...shortly after the University asked the Law School to cut 10 percent from its operating budget in order to cope with a precipitous fall in Harvard's endowment. And though much of the budget for the coming fiscal year will have been written by Jackson, the acting dean, tough economic times are likely to continue, and Harvard has said support from the endowment will fall still further in the following fiscal year...
...faculty member, who requested anonymity to preserve their relationship with the incoming dean, said that Minow's critics say she is not sufficiently able to “say no”—a dangerous quality at a time when hard decisions will have to be made about what programs will be downsized...
...sought change from within the system rather than fundamentally challenging its premises. As a student at Princeton, she co-chaired a Puerto Rican student organization and filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about Princeton's affirmative-action failures, leading to the hiring of the first Hispanic dean of students. But she acted in such a constructive way that William Bowen, then university president, helped select her for the Pyne Prize, the highest honor Princeton bestows on undergraduates. Sotomayor's experiences as an outsider in an Ivy League world seem to have made her pragmatic rather than rigid...