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...Joseph S. Nye Jr., the former dean of the Kennedy School, says that Keohane played a significant role in the search, and her support was a major factor in President-elect Drew G. Faust’s selection...
...relinquished her position this spring after just two years at the helm of the graduate school. “I’m stepping down because I’ve achieved the goals that I set out for myself as GSAS dean,” she said then...
...quiet a Cambridge July, Knowles swept up what he believed was a chaotic University Hall. The prodigious note-taker, who records nearly every interaction he has, had taken note of rifts within the College administration. As one of his first major acts in office, he and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 fired Patricia O’Brien, Gross’ deputy and a central player in the growth of what some professors considered the corporate culture of University Hall. O’Brien had long been a leader of the attempt to market...
...Problems in University Hall were not limited to O’Brien. Faculty clashes with Summers had lowered morale in the building and professors complained of a lack of communication and transparency. Two months before taking office, Bok brought in a former dean to conduct a review of academic administration in University Hall. O’Brien’s firing followed shortly thereafter...
...Though Bok was initially reticent to implement such a drastic change in his interim position, admissions dean William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, with the help of Vice President for Policy A. Clayton Spencer, convinced him of its benefits...