Word: melvoin
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...group was charged with examining three different areas, Melvoin says: improving the Overseers’ meetings, enhancing interaction between the Board and the Corporation, and reforming the use of visiting committees...
...Along with Melvoin, the other members of the working group included Susan L. Graham ’64, who will become the Board’s president on July 1 and is a member of the presidential search committee; William F. Lee ’72, also a member of the search committee; M. Lee Pelton; and Pauline R. Yu ’71. Pelton, who is president of Willamette University in Oregon, chaired the group, and Saris participated ex officio...
...Melvoin puts it: “If we have some significant issues to raise with an academic department, how does the Board follow up? Does—and should—an Overseer committee have any bite...
...We’re trying to open up a dialogue about the ways in which the Corporation might draw on the Overseers’ knowledge and its efforts,” Melvoin says. “The Board of Overseers wants to be helpful to the Corporation...
...Melvoin says, “The difficulties of the last 18 months have illuminated some of the stresses in the governing structure...