Word: deans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When President Derek C. Bok appointed an outspoken conservative as dean of the ideologically divided Law School in February, many said the decision flew in the face of conventional political wisdom...
When the Core Curriculum was first being implemented in the early 1980s, then-Dean of the Faculty Rosovsky called on Verba to ease the transistion, naming him associate dean for undergraduate education...
...when the library system, facing a severe crunch as the burgeoning supply of books outstrips available storage facilities, needed a new director, who did the dean turn to? Verba, of course. He was named to the job in 1984 as soon as his term as associate dean ended...
With Verba's ever-lengthening list of faculty positions, it was no surprise that Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence tapped the government scholar to chair a committee charged with proposing a new affirmative action strategy at a time when only about 8 percent of FAS' tenured faculty are women and 7 percent are minorities...
...fact, Verba, a top contender for dean of the Faculty when Spence was appointed five years ago keeps adding administrative posts to his resume. And many of his colleagues say Verba's successes result because he has the connections and the consensus-building skills necessary to push measures through the tangle of Harvard's decentralized bureaucracy...