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...university leader faces the additional challenges that accompany the not-for-profit, voluntary nature of a university. The central members of such an institution—the senior faculty??are tenured for life. In the long run, their job security insulates them from motivation by fear, fiat, fist, or fury, and they remain free to move should they become dissatisfied with their leader. A shrewd observer once quipped that the president of the university must be able to “listen charismatically.” This does not mean that the president must always...
...added to the esoteric lexicon of Harvard students, accompanying “concentration,” “comp,” “intersession” and “proctor:” the “secondary field.” We commend the Faculty??and particularly the Educational Policy Committee (EPC)—for quickly implementing the Harvard equivalent of minors, which have the potential to become integral parts of the curriculum. We hope, however, that students will not treat secondary fields as a de facto requirement...
...though the fights over faculty hiring were largely a thing of the past, the Law School suffered from an “inability to make the large number of appointments it had to make with an aging faculty?? until Kagan became dean, according to Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried...
...economics would fall in the range of 150 to 200 per class.This estimate is consistent with the theory that the increase of more than 200 in Ec 10 enrollment this year can be attributed to students interested in economics as a secondary, but not primary, concentration, according to Stock.The Faculty??s Educational Policy Committee has yet to examine non-departmental proposals, including ones for archaeology, global health, health policy, and mind, brain, and behavior. The EPC will begin reviewing these proposals in early February, but secondary fields in those areas will not be available for June 2007 graduates...
...next president should also address concerns about education and act both as a peer and leader to faculty??a “primus inter pares,” as Interim University President Derek C. Bok said. In order to maintain Harvard’s academic reputation, the new president must remain committed to undergraduates. Students come here to learn from the leaders in their fields, not to be the secondary concerns of preoccupied professors. It is important to continue work on teaching initiatives within the curricular review, but the new president should go further and introduce tenure...