Word: deanship
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...former UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, difficulties in pursuing policy arose when high-level University positions—among them the College deanship, the FAS deanship, and the University presidency—turned over in the middle of his tenure, yielding, in his words, “administrators unfamiliar with their new roles, and the Undergraduate Council...
...really didn’t think about taking on the deanship as ending my teaching or my research career,” Brandt said. “I will remain engaged in the substantive questions for the history of medicine and global health that have motivated my work for a long time...
...said in a statement.Brandt said he had several meetings with various members of the University during the dean search to discuss the issues facing GSAS and his ideas about its future. After several of these meetings, Smith met with Brandt late one afternoon to offer him the deanship. Brandt’s decision came soon afterward.“It is obviously a big decision,” Brandt said. “So I told him how excited I was about the possibility of leading the graduate school, and then I got back to him relatively quickly after...
...February 2005, anthropologist Peter T. Ellison resigned from the post, protesting what he saw as dishonest behavior by former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers. This past spring, outgoing dean Theda R. Skocpol abruptly resigned from the position as well after her candidacy for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences deanship appeared to falter. The Crimson yesterday obtained a draft of Brandt’s acceptance message. “I am enormously honored to assume the leadership of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at this very exciting time,” Brandt wrote in the message...
Reached at his home tonight, Brandt declined to comment. Theda Skocpol, the current dean of GSAS who announced her resignation in March, also declined to comment. She has continued to hold the deanship during the search for her successor...