Word: helming
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...hands.”And come July 1, Derek C. Bok and Jeremy R. Knowles—the past and future leaders of the University and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—will have an unprecedented opportunity to reassume their positions at Harvard’s helm; Bok as interim president, and Knowles as interim dean of FAS.“They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, you can’t sell the same piece of real estate twice, and that there are no second acts,” said Peter J. Gomes, minister...
...Monday, Knowles began: “In the light of his own generous decision, it was, of course, impossible for me to look President Bok in the eye and say ‘No.’”Knowles first took the Faculty’s helm in 1991 under then-University President Neil L. Rudenstine, inheriting an $11.7 million budget deficit. The dean proceeded to tighten belts across FAS—provoking a small outcry when he cut 10 staff positions at the Semitic Museum. He had nearly erased the deficit by 1996.Knowles returns to the deanship...
Knowles first took the Faculty’s helm in 1991 under then-University President Neil L. Rudenstine, inheriting an $11.7 million budget deficit. The dean proceeded to tighten belts across FAS—provoking a small outcry when he cut 10 staff positions at the Semitic Museum. He had nearly erased the deficit...
...move means that next year, two of Harvard’s former leaders will reprise their roles at the helm of the University. Bok was president from...
...year after taking over the helm of Ec 10, N. Gregory Mankiw is responding to student demand by supplying change to the decades-old introductory economics course. Most significantly, students will now be able to divide Social Analysis 10 with credit—meaning that signing up for the course doesn’t lock a student in for both semesters of the year-long course. And undergraduates with a social analysis Core requirement to fulfill will only need to take the first semester to do so, without having to file a petition first. “There have always...