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Dean Harry R. Lewis’68, after five years as Dean of the College, releases a 37 page report detailing the state of the college. Although the report declares the state of the college is good, the report does detail the lack of campus space, flaws in academic advising, and inadequacy of athletic facilities...
...Dean Knowles’ committee” and the members’ powers of “moral suasion” to achieve these results. One University Hall administrator says Knowles’ lesser reliance on formal consultative processes has enabled delicate issues to be discussed in greater detail and with better results due to the added privacy of unofficial channels...
...Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw says it is this attention to detail and to people that is the secret to Welch's success...
...months of his administration, he raised $650 million; the University later exceeded its goals for a $2.1 billion capital campaign. The growth of the endowment over Rudenstine’s tenure was in large part the result of his Herculean efforts in fundraising events and planning meetings. Attention to detail coupled with an imaginative and ambitious vision allowed Rudenstine to equip Harvard with the funding to build a University which even he is still only able to imagine...
Although the reestablishment of the provost position complicated the president’s relationship with the deans, Rudenstine was able to bring closure to one of the most complex relationships on campus: that between Harvard and Radcliffe. Through his attention to detail and skill in negotiation, Rudenstine brokered a deal that brought an end to the often unstable division between Harvard and Radcliffe. In October of 1998, Radcliffe College became the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, with a new mission statement and full accountability to the Harvard administration. While the move unavoidably disappointed some, it brought a finality and transparency...