Word: deanship
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When Sovern first called her to talk about the deanship, he opened the conversation by saying, "The class of '55 strikes again!" Indeed, Severn purposely made a quick strike after Schmidt's announced departure. At a time when law-school applications outside the Ivy League and a handful of other elite universities are down 20% from 1982, he wanted to avoid the impression of a store left untended...
...University is in a crisis right now,” Orfield said. “Finding someone who wants to take the deanship under difficult circumstances is going to be tough...
...It’s not uncommon for people who take on a deanship for the first time to come to a gradual sense that this may not be exactly what they most want to do, and I think that’s what happened,” Kegan said...
Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum, who has spoken publicly in support of Summers at Faculty meetings, said last month that Kirby “invited an expression of interest” by her in the GSAS deanship. She said she was “undoubtedly” one of several people asked by Kirby if they would be interested in the job. She said she told Kirby she was not interested in the post because she is a relatively new senior faculty member at Harvard—she joined Harvard in 2001—and is also only...
...issues that face the world certainly span the boundaries that have traditionally existed here,” Ellwood said, adding that he has made cooperation with other Harvard schools “one of my priorities” during the first 10 months of his deanship...