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Professors trumpet the meetings with the Corporation as a great success for the Faculty. Council member and Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan calls the meetings “a tremendous step forward...
...days later, Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan gave the Corporation a deadline. On the afternoon of Feb. 9, she rushed to University Hall just moments before its doors locked to file a motion of no confidence to be heard at the Feb. 28 Faculty meeting. Summers’ time was running...
Judith L. Ryan is Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature...
...faculty passes the current review without major revisions, its influence is unlikely to extend much beyond Harvard Yard. “It’s not going to put Harvard on the front page of The New York Times,” Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan says.But come July 1, the president who helped Harvard usher through its last curricular review will once again be at the University’s helm.Some faculty members say they hope that Incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok’s presence will allow for a substantial reevaluation...
...take much reading of our history, however, to stem the tide of nostalgia. Seen in a global context, our College began as a small, regional effort, in a cultural backwater of Europe, in the waning years of the Great Ming dynasty. Harvard became a significant American university by emulating German structures and practices in the 19th century. It assumed, with others, a position of national leadership by the middle of the 20th century. Only in the last half-century, and particularly over the course of the past several decades, has our external reputation set us as a place apart...