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...replace Knowles, who is serving as interim dean until July 1, but her announcement suggests that she will no longer vie for that post.The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has lacked a permanent leader since historian William C. Kirby abruptly resigned under pressure from former University President Lawrence H. Summers in January of last year.After Summers’ January 2005 remarks about the innate differences between men and women in the sciences, Skocpol emerged as one of his most outspoken critics. Five months later, Skocpol was named to the top post at the graduate school, replacing anthropologist Peter T. Ellison...
Former president Lawrence H. Summers appointed Stone in 2001, and Stone helped him handle the press crisis after Summers’ controversial remarks on women in science...
Last month, Harvard’s Board of Overseers confirmed Drew Gilpin Faust as the University’s 28th president. A civil war historian who has led the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2001, Faust, for some, has come to represent the antithesis of former President Lawrence H. Summers. Where Summers was viewed as abrasive and controversial, Faust has built a reputation for her powers of consensus-building, which might prove useful given the tempestuous relations between the Faculty and former president...
...example, former President Lawrence H. Summers recognized these structural obstacles to improving the undergraduate experience using traditional means—and so he chose to fund the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub and Lamont Café with his own discretionary fund. While we hope Faust will continue to take bold steps such as these in helping undergraduates, we hope that a more long-term, structural change can be made to lessen the need for temporary allocations of the discretionary budget...
...about 30. But since the College has no plans to increase the size of the overall student body in the near future—a policy we wholeheartedly support—the increase in freshmen must be offset with a decrease in transfers. Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said, “We made the decision because admissions—which reads all the files—felt that the freshman pool of applicants was deeper…than the pool of transfer applicants...