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...School Dean Elena Kagan is in line to become Obama’s solicitor general, the third-ranking official in the Justice Department; former University President Lawrence H. Summers will lead his National Economic Council; Harvard Kennedy School professor John P. Holdren, an expert on climate change, will lead the administration’s science policy; and geneticist Eric S. Lander, the head of the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute, will chair Obama’s science and technology advisory council...
...Kagan is credited with instituting a series of reforms aimed at improving the first-year curriculum, strengthening student life, and encouraging public interest practice...
...Kagan won students’ approval by providing free coffee, hot chocolate, and bagels, installing an ice skating rink, and renovating the student center. These small changes paid huge dividends, humanizing a school that had grown synonymous with impersonal treatment and apathy towards student life, students said...
...Kagan poached top faculty like super-star legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein ’75 and Lawrence Lessig. She encouraged intellectual diversity among the faculty, notably hiring Jack L. Goldsmith, a conservative lawyer from the Bush White House, whose office stirred controversy for supporting the use of torture by the government. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...Kagan also instituted a pass/fail grading system for first year students and implemented curricular reform...