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Altshuler’s tenure at the GSD is one of the shortest Harvard deanships in recent memory, and much shorter than the 12-year terms served by his two predecessors. Since taking office, he has boosted financial aid for students, strengthened the previously cash-strapped school’s financial position, and doubled the number of senior women faculty, according to a University statement...
...remaining months in office, Altshuler said he would focus in part on developing a five-year financial plan for GSD, completing faculty searches, and strengthening ties with other schools at the University...
Former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who first appointed Altshuler to be acting GSD dean in July 2004 and made him permanent dean seven months later, said in an e-mail that “in terms of positive accomplishment per year of service, few Harvard deans can match Alan Altshuler’s record...
Just before Summers announced his own resignation in February, Altshuler praised the president’s “extraordinarily effective” leadership. “I have never heard a GSD faculty member express anger at President Summers,” he told The Crimson at the time...
...Several GSD professors saw those comments as a sign of Altshuler’s supposed disconnect with members of his own faculty, who were said to be largely critical of Summers. Some faculty members were also concerned by the fact that Altshuler—though a professor of urban policy and planning—was a political scientist by training and had spent much of his academic career at the Kennedy School of Government, not the GSD...