Word: deanship
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...Deans don’t make an imprint any more than gardeners trample on flower beds,” he said in an interview with Harvard Magazine upon taking the deanship in 1991, writing one of many lines into Harvard history...
Knowles said at the end of his deanship that the hardest part of his job had been “saying no to everything” proposed by professors. “It takes much longer to say no,” Knowles said, “because you must explain yourself...
Though his faculty was strapped for cash in the beginning his deanship, Knowles took incremental steps that would prove critical a decade later. He wired dorms and offices with Internet connections in 1996, earlier than most universities. He formed committees to examine the College dean’s office—which led to a restructuring under former FAS dean William C. Kirby—and the hiring of female professors...
When, later in his deanship, the spoils of a successful capital campaign and strong endowment growth turned deficits into new spending opportunities, Knowles pursued some of the University’s most successful construction projects in recent decades. He refurbished the dormitories in the Old Yard, converted the Freshman Union into the Barker Center, and laid the plans for new government buildings that opened...
...Smith said yesterday that the search’s duration was simply the result of normal deliberation and that Hammonds, who he said was the first person he had asked to take the deanship, was quick to accept the position...