Word: hyman
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...least three Harvard leaders made the list—Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and Law School Dean Elena Kagan...
Kagan and Hyman declined comment through their spokesmen. The other candidates known to be on the latest list did not return requests for comment late last night...
...Harvard’s three oft-mentioned internal candidates—Provost Steven E. Hyman, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, and Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust—only Hyman’s salary is publicly available. In 2004-2005, he earned $416,939 in combined salary and benefits, meaning that the top job would be a significant pay boost...
When this transitional year began, the interim leaders of our university worked hard to emphasize that it would be anything but transitory in its importance. At a Nov. 6 dinner with leading alumni, Provost Steven E. Hyman singled out three movements that were reshaping the world of academia, with our university at its center. Echoing former President Lawrence H. Summers, he broadly stressed Harvard’s ongoing process of internationalization and technological development...
...third movement he suggested was more contested. Hyman spoke of how the German model of a liberal education—independent departments working independently—was irremediably outdated today. Many significant areas of knowledge were simply not being conveyed to students because departments would not extend themselves beyond conventional boundaries...