Word: ince
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harry Lewis, Nancy Maull, Peter Gomes, Theda Skocpol, and Daniel Steiner issued a report which PBHA Inc. interpreted as a long-term hostile takeover attempt by the Dean of the FAS. In response, long sessions were held to further strengthen PBHA Inc. leadership by forming a compact Board of Trustees which would include undergraduate and non-undergraduate members...
...consultant and were attended by myself, Anne Peretz, Arnold Hiatt, Frank Duehay, Ken Reeves, Henry Fernandez, Robert Kiely, Ali Asani, Bill Graustein, Judith Kidd, and appropriate student leadership. Ultimately this committee approved a plan with a 15 to 1 majority--Graustein opposing--which was submitted to the undergraduate PBHA Inc. governing board and approved. It called for an elected PBHA Inc. Board of Trustees comprised of students and non-students--with the non-student membership to be recruited in roughly equal parts from human service, donor, alum, academic, and Harvard administrative communities. Special effort was to be made to represent...
...this point Harvard College administrators started making threats and PBHA Inc. started down a long road of accommodation which I believe has brought into question its very ability to administer itself. The threats took the form of demanding PBHA Inc. disassociate itself from its Executive Director; of the College's demanding a disproportionate number of seats on the new PBHA Inc. Board of Trustees; of the College's demanding that the non-student members of the Board sit but not vote; of the College's prohibiting the Board from employing staff and/or from raising money which might be used...
...questions at hand remain the old ones: who is ultimately responsible for the administration and governance of programs functioning under the 501(c)3 structure of PBHA Inc.? I believe it is only ethical that PBHA Inc. govern itself as is expected of a non-profit corporation--that is, with a Board of Trustees openly responsible for overseeing the best interests of the corporation. Such boards are reasonably expected to set policy, to employ an Executive Director, and to raise money--in short, to be able to manage their own affairs. Should a board prove unable to do as much...
...profits successfully stand on their own feet all the time--often with less resources than PBHA Inc. Stiles and Dwight Hall [at Yale] have been independent for decades running similar operations. Of course, I would never cede the mantle of undergraduate public service leadership to any other organization...