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Increased cooperation between the Harvard and Radcliffe administrations seems to be a priority for the committee. Horner's dual appointment three years ago as a Radcliffe president and a Harvard dean was the first step toward this goal, and Horner has been focusing more and more attention on her deanship during the last year. The committee could recommend an increase in Horner's Harvard powers, new Harvard titles for Radcliffe administrators, or new Radcliffe seats on Harvard administrative institutions like the Administrative Board or the Council of Deans...
...these heavy problems have led to a change in the way University Hall operates: Rosovsky is now trying to delegate many of the administrative chores that go along with his deanship to his associate deans, Burton Dreben of the graduate school and Francis Pipkin of the College...
...things that is not supposed to happen here since HEW accepted Harvard's plan is a practice called direct hiring, by which someone hires a person for a non-teaching position--anything from a secretarial post to a deanship--without first listing the opening with the Personnel Office. The idea is that people looking for a job can then know about the opening and apply for it, and that Personnel can, in the words of the affirmative action plan, "identify minority persons and women with the requisite skills for the position in question." If you believe the affirmative action plan...
...were hired directly in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Dean Rosovsky insisted that the appointment of one of the men, Francis M. Pipkin, the new associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, was not in violation of the affirmative-action plan because while Pipkin's deanship is primarily administrative, he remains a professor of Physics as well and his new job is teaching-related and therefore exempt from the direct hiring...
...these days will admit that he really likes being a dean. Deans bill themselves instead as primarily scholars who are taking on for a few years a duty they don't find especially pleasant as a service to the university they love. Openly campaigning or even applying for a deanship would be unthinkably bad form, a complete violation of the ambience of Harvard deanships. The proper way to take on a deanship here is through being wooed a bit by friends and taking the post with a sense of honor and sacrifice...