Word: fox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appointment of Fox and Moore comes in the wake of the first major review of Harvard's graduate program in 15 years. The so-called Strauch report, which took a 10-member committee eight months to complete, recommended broad changes in the school's enrollment and financial affairs. One of their recommendations was to add a dean for GSAS administration. Spence's appointment of Fox represents one of the first changes prompted by the Strauch's report's findings...
...Fox and Moore are expected to give what Spence calls an "institutional response" to the report...
...Fox, who had served as dean of the College since 1976, was regarded as determined, hard headed, and effective. Among his major accomplishments was the "Fox Plan," which assigned all freshmen to housing in the Yard, while reserving the 13 residential houses for upperclassmen...
Involved in the recently completed $350 million Harvard Campaign, Fox was also considered a fundraising genius. He had been criticized, however, for being "too administrative" in his College post and for not concentrating enough on education and other general policy questions...
...John B. Fox Jr. '59, the new administrative dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is no stranger to the task of running things at Harvard...