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...Benedict H. Gross ’71, who left the deanship this summer, was different. A quiet advocate for undergraduates in the face of occasionally fearsome resistance from fellow administrators, Gross spent his five years at the helm assembling an impressive legacy. Beyond the physical monuments to his tenacity—the Cambridge Queen’s Head pub, the Lamont Library Café, the Student Organizations Center at Hilles, and the New College Theater—Gross presided over the most productive half-decade of curricular change in recent years...
...search seemed to be nearing an end in late May, when Elizabeth G. Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and reportedly a top candidate for the Medical School deanship, traveled to Cambridge for a series of search-related meetings. But several weeks after Nabel's under-the-radar visit, Faust named Barbara J. McNeil, a professor of health care policy, to lead the school on a temporary basis while Faust rushed to find a permanent leader...
...appointment came after a nine-month search that seemed to be nearing an end in late May, when Elizabeth G. Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and reportedly a top candidate for the Medical School deanship, traveled to Cambridge for a series of search-related meetings. But several weeks after Nabel's under-the-radar visit, Faust named Barbara J. McNeil, a professor of health care policy, to lead the school on a temporary basis while Faust rushed to find a permanent leader...
...interim FAS dean for the past three months and is a former dean of undergraduate education, will be sticking around University Hall as well. Pilbeam, an informal consultant to Harvard administrators for decades, will act as senior adviser to Smith—a computer scientist who assumes the deanship with less administrative experience than recent predecessors...
Smith, on vacation in Europe, has not returned requests for comment. It remains unclear how the dean-to-be will fill the most important unoccupied position in University Hall, the College deanship. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross '71 resigned last week, two days after Smith sent his letter, calling the move "entirely my decision...