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...need to challenge our students, unsettle them...open their eyes and their minds and stretch their horizons,” Duke University President Nannerl O. Keohane said. “That, after all, is the business we?...
Much of the discussion of specific individuals revolved around successful former university presidents who can serve as models for the new president, but are not candidates for the job themselves. Those mentioned included Nannerl O. Keohane, the president of Duke, and Hannah Gray, former president of the University of Chicago and a member of the Harvard search committee...
...country's two most prominent woman presidents--Duke University President Nannerl O. Keohane and University of Pennsylvania (Penn) President Judith Rodin--have publicly taken themselves out of the running for Harvard's highest office...
Chandler likens this year's administrative flurry of activity to the period in the early 1990s when four prominent universities were simultaneously searching for presidents. Numerous search committees tossed around the names of Gerhard S. Casper, who eventually went to Stanford University, and Nannerl O. Keohane , who ended up at Duke University. But today, he says, there aren't such obviously universal contenders...
Harvard won't be the first to have granted a female the presidential post; among others, Nannerl Keohane assumed the position at Duke University in 1993 and Judith Rodin has been president at the University of Pennsylvania since the same year. But Harvard has historically been a bastion of WASP gentility--and traces of that aristocratic outlook still exist today. The maids' quarters may now house students, but the male-only final clubs continue to thrive, and those with a Harvard legacy in their family are unjustifiably given preferential treatment in the admissions process. The presidential search is a fortuitous...