Word: grosse
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...three years at the helm, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has overseen a dramatic reorganization of the College administration that has left one longtime professor saying, “I hardly know anyone in University Hall nowadays...
...Nine of the 10 members of Gross’s senior staff took their current posts after Gross took charge of Harvard’s undergraduate branch, and at least seven senior College administrators have either quit or been forced to leave during his tenure...
...Gross, his staff, and top Harvard officials say that bringing fresh faces into University Hall has helped reinvigorate the College—which ranked near the bottom of a 2002 student-satisfaction survey the year before Gross took office. But several professors and former administrators contend that the high level of turnover has eroded institutional memory and may be hindering cooperation between the administration and the Faculty...
...Gross counters that “bringing in people from other institutions and on the Faculty brings in a wealth of new ideas to the College...
...proposal, unlike the one that passed, required member nations to garner a super majority of the vote rather than a simple majority in order to win a seat on the council. The more stringent standard was meant to prevent countries like Iran and Sudan—notorious for their gross violations of human rights—from gaining membership, as they had been able to do on the former U.N. Commission on Human Rights. We commend the U.S. for pushing for this higher standard, especially given that its own tenuous human rights record may have prevented it from winning...