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...Less than a month after Keohane was announced as the newest Corporation fellow, Summers delivered his infamous remarks on women in science at the National Bureau of Economic Research. The crisis in Mass. Hall only worsened in the months before Keohane took office. When she officially joined the Corporation that June, Summers had already lost a Faculty of Arts and Sciences no-confidence vote. And just four weeks after she took office, lawyer Conrad K. Harper abruptly resigned his seat on the Corporation, saying he could “no longer support President Summers...
...relationships between University Hall and Mass. Hall are better than I’ve seen them in a long time,” she said...
...quiet a Cambridge July, Knowles swept up what he believed was a chaotic University Hall. The prodigious note-taker, who records nearly every interaction he has, had taken note of rifts within the College administration. As one of his first major acts in office, he and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 fired Patricia O’Brien, Gross’ deputy and a central player in the growth of what some professors considered the corporate culture of University Hall. O’Brien had long been a leader of the attempt to market...
...Problems in University Hall were not limited to O’Brien. Faculty clashes with Summers had lowered morale in the building and professors complained of a lack of communication and transparency. Two months before taking office, Bok brought in a former dean to conduct a review of academic administration in University Hall. O’Brien’s firing followed shortly thereafter...
...voted in favor of the Council’s proposal. The UC plan drew heavily upon that of the Verba report, but it did not endorse a J-term—instead citing language from the earlier report providing for an alternate configuration.Two months before he would leave Mass. Hall, Bok threw his hat into the ring. He said on Friday that he waited until late in his tenure as interim president to discuss calendar reform because “several precipitating events occurred late in the year,” including the curricular review.“In light...