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...Harvard president have? No one would call you a figurehead, but I wonder, what with the Corporation and Overseers looking over your shoulder and quietly or not so quietly steering the University’s agenda, to what extent do you as president have the power to guide and implement initiatives completely of your own choosing? LHS: Certainly whatever the president of Harvard says or does is noticed pretty widely. I think we’ve been able to do some very important things these last years by eliminating family contributions by any family with income under...
...more pervasive and longstanding than those of the curriculum itself. The defects of teaching at Harvard College are well known, and we do not claim that the complete solution will be easy to find. Two sensible and practical improvements were suggested this year, however, that the Faculty failed to implement: first, to waive the unreasonable three-year limit for lecturers who are effective teachers, and second, to require all professors to distribute Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) surveys in their courses, and to publish the results of these surveys in the annual CUE Guide.The current limit of three years...
...authors contended, the shortcomings in the structure “are more nearly weaknesses of execution than of basic assignment of functions.” And second, because Harvard’s governance structure is established in what is now the Massachusetts Constitution, asking the state legislature to implement the changes could result in “unpredictable consequences...
...proposals to take tangible form. Ultimately, far more was said than done. How, then, are we to judge Summers’ tenure? Was it merely a vision unfulfilled?Summers banked his presidency on the assumption that his vision for Harvard was the right one. He aimed to implement that vision with an urgency befitting what would ultimately be the shortest tenure of any Harvard president since the Civil War. Pushing stubbornly as if each day might be his last on the job, that day arrived sooner than expected. With much work left unfinished—the conclusions of the curricular...
...same professor also said that "there's been a failure of the administration to implement the substance of the report...