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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...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Overseeing—But Not Heard? | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...While the current bicameral governance structure has on balance served Harvard well in past eras, it may not be the best structure for a modern university running a $2.6 billion budget,” says overseer Richard I. Melvoin ’73, who served on the working group. “It is not to say the structure is irretrievably broken, but rather the Overseers wanted to see whether we could improve the operations within the structure...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Overseeing—But Not Heard? | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Overseeing—But Not Heard? | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Overseeing—But Not Heard? | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Overseeing—But Not Heard? | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

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