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Last week, the University chose James R. Houghton '58, the Chief executive officer of Corning, Inc., to replace Charles P. Slichter '45 as a member of the Harvard Corporation, the University's highest governing board. We were disaapointed with the University's choice, since Houghton appears as just one more corporate executive on a body with precious few academics. The Corporation is not merely responsible for the fiscal operation of the University, but also must approve the decisions of Harvard's faculty. Thus the Corporation's composition has a direct impact on the academic functioning of the University...
...University Professor Henry Rosovsky. Rudenstine has spent most of his academic career as an administrator. Rosovsky also spent many years as an administrator and is not listed in the current Courses of Instruction in association with any class offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The choice of Houghton further removes the Corporation from the one of the central purposes of the University: educating students...
...Houghton joins three other corporate executives and a lawyer on the non-academic slate of the Corporation. The presence of an active research scientist, at a time when society is driven by technological advancement, has now disappeared. Houghton's background at Corning, a firm heavily reliant on scientific research, has been touted as maintaining the link to natural sciences that Slichter, a professor of physics and chemistry at the University of Illinois, provided. Houghton, who received his highest degree at Harvard Business School, has been called "not just another CEO." Some have even suggested that he might be instrumental...
...some say Houghton's position at a companyinvolved in scientific research may provide theneeded knowledge...
...appointment of Houghton, ironically,arrived after the central administration cameunder intense fire for ignoring opinions of FASmembers...