Word: deans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most agree that Spence's tenure has been aquiet one--not much has visibly changed in FAS,according to both the dean's supporters and hisdetractors. Instead, the main issue of contentionis whether Spence's next five years will alterHarvard in the ways he says they will...
...result, faculty members often findthemselves questioning whether Spence's ambitiousplans have come at the expense of short-termresults. Some even suggest that the dean'sdeliberative style can function as an excuse forinaction...
...very broad view of Harvard and of theFAS, and he takes the long view on what isimportant," says Kennedy School Dean Robert D.Putnam, who worked closely with Spence as theformer chair of the Government Department...
Henry Rosovsky, the flamboyant and outspokenformer dean of the Faculty, guided FAS through thechanges of the 1970s and masterminded the creationof the Core Curriculum--an innovation which drewnational attention to Harvard's undergraduateprogram...
...ever want to be dean, but if I everhad to be a dean, I would not want to be deanafter Henry Rosovsky," says Zeckhauser, whoadvised Spence on his Ph.D thesis and recruitedthe young scholar to teach at the Kennedy Schoolin the 1970s...