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What might be seen as "passivity," the former official says, "is just limited objectives. The main one is to raise a lot of money...
...leader on fighting for diversity," says James H. Rowe III '73, Harvard's former vice president for government, community and public affairs. Rudenstine has given congressional testimony, lobbied lawmakers and pushed the issue even within the University, setting up a challenge fund to help departments hire "underrepresented groups...
Knowles in particular has a "something of an upper hand in dealing with the president," in the words of one former University official. "He is pretty politically skilled, which is interesting because Rudenstine had vastly more experience when he came to the University, and Knowles had not been terribly active in the public affairs of the Faculty...
Says C. Douglas Dillon '31, who presided over the overseers in 1969 and is a former secretary of the treasury, Rudenstine has not been "quite as active trying to influence legislation in Washington as some other presidents...
...would say the University is anywhere near where it needs to be" in the realm of tenuring female faculty, says Renee M. Landers '77, former president of the Board of Overseers and a strong Rudenstine advocate. "The numbers of senior women in the faculty are not much better than when I graduated...