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...University Hall, O’Brien helped spearhead the creation of two library cafés and a campus pub. Summers, who is said to have hand-picked O’Brien for the new post of deputy dean, said she brought “much-needed” energy to the College administration...
...Faust has already demonstrated these qualities as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Faust gave crucial support to Radcliffe’s recruitment of leading scientists, and also viewed the Institute as a way of attracting prominent scientists to the University. From my experiences putting together a focused research group on cosmology, I could see how Faust understood many of the distinct issues and requirements facing scientists and how she absorbed what it takes to attract the most promising scientists and provide them with an environment in which they can thrive. Faust was consistently present at Radcliffe science...
...world: first as a historian of the antebellum South, then as an administrator, and now as a woman in a 367-year succession of 27 men. And her scholarship, charm, judgment, fundraising ability, administrative skill, and vision were all abundantly on display during her six years as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.Yet Massachusetts Hall is a far cry from Fay House. The challenges Faust faces as president—from laying the groundwork for a campus in Allston to uniting a balkanized university to implementing an uninspiring new curriculum—are of an entirely different nature...
Gates, who would always address the class with a “high-pitched voice,” was taking the course because he was “looking for a challenge,” said Leitner, who is now the assistant dean for continuing education for information and technology...
...don’t want to get into a situation like McDonald’s with a lot of subcontractors [where we] can’t control the quality,” says Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations Joseph S. Nye Jr, who was dean of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) from...