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...Med School professors say that the rumors of Dean Robert H. Ebert's resignation have been flying around since the summer, and Ebert made it official last Friday in a prematurely tear-jerking au revoir with President Bok, announcing that he will be leaving in July...
...Harvard Community Health Plan, a Harvard-sponsored health care program that serves 50,000 residents, was Ebert's baby. He has also worked with the government on legislation that would instruct private med schools on their curricula in exchange for the federal funding. Medical schools, says Ebert, must increasingly be regarded as "public schools...
...Med School professor, who asked to remain anonymous, says it is likely that Ebert's successor will be more concerned with the direction of research within the University. Another basic scientist, who also declined to be named, said of Ebert, "There have been rumblings of discontent at the lack of vigor of his leadership...
...increased admission of black students and women over the ten years of his deanship, Ebert says, was significant largely because it had an impact on other medical schools. The Harvard Med School class is now about 19 per cent black...
Ebert admits that his administration has been concerned more with issues of public health and the societal role of the school than with academic matters. This is because Ebert views himself, from the context of a detailed historical analysis of the role of the Med School, as the pilot of a school in the midst of a prickly "transition period...