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Faculty say Summers’ challenge in defining the role of the next provost is deciding which of the big issues??the expansion in Allston, undergraduate education, science—he wants the provost to be involved in, deciding how that involvement will work and equipping the provost with the resources commensurate with the task...
...It’s going to take strong central leadership,” Jorgenson says. “Moving the Cambridge part of Harvard into the surrounding territories generates the same type of tension as [University] integration has. These are coordination issues??it’s a great opportunity to develop a role for the provost in working out the internal details, while leaving the external, political matters to the president,” he says...
...finding those that are “widely shared” and serve “the best interests of society”; research techniques are rejected for federal funding because they raise too many ethical “issues.” (Whether these “issues?? can in fact be resolved is not as important as the fact that people are worried by them.) A variety of views parade by, each carefully presented as no more or less valid than the last; one Catholic rejects stem cell research, but another accepts it; the Methodists might...
...report shows in a nutshell the danger of resolving ethical questions by a democratic process. If considered thought can provide a clear answer to the “issues?? posed by cloning, then why not start thinking and damn the majority? And if it can’t, if the only way to decide the issue is to wait for the vote count in the morning paper, then what possible advice can one give to the member of the House who must cast the first vote...
...colleague Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76—-namely, that of making Harvard a truly global University. Summers’ time at the World Bank has no doubt acquainted him with the shared and international nature of many of the world’s most pressing issues??-from economic development and political stability to infectious disease and climate change. Harvard must redefine its place in an era of globalization, placing an emphasis on cross-border collaboration, international study and universal values. Summers will also be charged with formulating Harvard’s response to the development...