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Whatever happens with the deanship, says English Department Chair Philip J. Fisher, the years under President Neil L. Rudenstine are likely to carry an increased emphasis on undergraduate education--partly because of Rudenstine's long-demonstrated interest in the area, and partly in reaction to former President Derek C. Bok's legacy of strengthening Harvard's graduate schools...
More recently, incoming Graduate School of Education Dean Linda Darling Hammond took her name out of consideration for the deanship after initially being offered the post because her husband had not been given a position. she later accepted the job after he was offered a lectureship at the Kennedy School...
When he accepted he deanship, Knowles says, he suspected what he was getting into--severe financial problems and the need for major renovations in Yard dormitories. In addition, this year Knowles faced a sensitive situation with faculty activity reporting, the imminent uncapping of the mandatory retirement age and a race relations crisis in the College...
Knowles' appointment as Houghton Professor of Biochemistry was the first made by Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky when the latter assumed the deanship in 1973. Knowles moved into the mauve dean's office immediately after Rosovsky's one-year stint as acting dean last year...
Swamped with the work of two administrativeposts, Pilbeam, who is also director of thePeabody museum, says he considered stepping downfrom his associate deanship last year...