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“One always wants to feel that one has increased the intellectual distinction and inspirational teaching of the faculty, that one has improved the experience of students in the College and the Graduate School, and that one has relieved the Faculty from administrative burdens so they can do...
As for how long he expects to serve as interim dean, Knowles said, “I devoutly hope and believe that the acting careers of President Bok and myself will be short.”
While Knowles received accolades from a wide range of professors this week, he is connected to some of the controversies that have dogged Summers.
It was Knowles who promoted Andrei Shleifer ’82 to an endowed professorship after the economist became embroiled in a fraud scandal stemming from the Harvard Institute for International Development’s dealings in Russia. In a 2002 deposition, Summers said he had told Knowles of his...
And at a Faculty meeting in February 2005, Knowles proposed that a three-person group mediate between Summers and professors, who were still seething a month after the president’s comments on women in science. Faculty members shot down Knowles’ proposal, calling it undemocratic and prearranged...