Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When John B. Fox Jr. '59 moved down the University Hall stairs from his cramped third floor office to the spacious rooms of the College dean this summer, few people outside University Hall knew what to expect of him. As assistant dean for academic administration, Fox had generally been active only behind the scenes, and while he had a reputation for tending toward the conservative end of the spectrum of University Hall administrators, it was hard to tell what kind of role he would play once he moved out into the open...
Three months later, it isn't much clearer. Fox is so new to his position that last week his hallway was still full of cardboard boxes, and he was still talking about refurnishing the office his predecessor had vacated...
...Fox has begun to put together a set of goals for his tenure as dean of the College that, while ambitious, could change the entire character of that position: presently the dean is no more than a beefed-up assistant to Rosovsky, but Fox hopes to make his new office "a place for people to bring ideas about the College, a place where the buck stops...
...desire to make his role more visible, stems, he says, from a belief that the College is the victim of a series of centrifugal forces that have obscured some of its traditional goals. Echoing part of Dean Rosovsky's 1974 letter to the Faculty on undergraduate education, Fox says he believes that increased diversity of student and faculty interests, while adding strength to the kind of education offered to undergraduates, has fragmented a community once built around common academic involvement. The main goal of the College dean and of other undergraduate advisors should be, he suggests, to recreate as much...
...Dean Fox has said he considers it essential to renovate South House if the Quad's general unpopularity is to end, because at present living conditions there are below those in the rest of the College...