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...Faculty Council and the Caucus of Chairs broke through the traditional boundary between faculty members and the University’s highest-ranking administrators when they arranged to meet with the members of the secretive Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body...
Wanted: “A person of high intellectual distinction, with...a capacity to guide a complex institution through a time of significant change” to be the next president of Harvard University. Six months after the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, solicited names fitting this profile in 2000, University President Lawrence H. Summers was hired. The Corporation had high expectations that the Washington-trained economist would use the visibility of the Harvard presidency to take the University in daring directions. Five years later, Summers is leaving Mass. Hall, having lost the Corporation?...
...colleagues as the University’s “chief cheerleader” during his 27 years on the Harvard Corporation, died on April 18 at age 83 due to complications following a stroke. In his time on the Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—Stone served on the search committee that named Neil L. Rudenstine Harvard’s 26th president in 1991. And as the Corporation’s senior fellow until 2002, he led the panel that ultimately picked Lawrence H. Summers as its 27th. Incoming Interim President Derek...
...search committee is not operating with any particular timetable.“We will take the needed amount of time to come up with the right candidate,” he writes.The pressure on the search committee to select the right individual for the University’s highest office is great.“People are counting on you to do it right,” Slichter says. “You owe it to this magnificent University and all the people who inhabit it now, and in the future, and in the past, to make this result...
Galbraith received the highest national civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, twice in his lifetime, first from President Harry S. Truman in 1946 for his work during the Second World War and then from Clinton...