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Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine entertained the crowd with his own history with afterschool programs as a child...
...June the University's most successful fundraiser will step down from his post, and appropriately enough, one of the nation's most-renowned economists will arrive to fill President Neil L. Rudenstine's shoes. (Other issues aside, the presidential search committee must have thought, "Who better than Lawrence H. Summers to figure out what to do with our endowment now?") After a decade of Rudenstine-style wining and dining (with hand-written thank-you notes, no doubt), Summers will navigate the stirring end product: an extravagant $19 billion endowment, mostly comprised of alumni donations...
Harvard is at the top of the world in discipline after discipline, but its cross-disciplinary activities--in environment, ecology, economic development, public health, mind and brain, international studies and many other areas--have struggled for funding and for an institutional structure within the University. Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine's initiatives in this area have not achieved the depth and durability that he hoped a decade ago. With $19 billion in the bank, Summers could do much more. The new president should explore a kind of internal venture capital market in which non-traditional intellectual disciplines or cross-disciplinary...
...there have been signs all along that Summers' presidency may be more oriented toward undergraduates than that of his predecessor, current president Neil L. Rudenstine...
...decision came after nine months of consideration by the presidential search committee, which selected Summers as the best candidate to succeed President Neil L. Rudenstine. We believe Summers to be highly qualified. However, the extreme secrecy and exclusivity of the search denied students and faculty meaningful access to the decision-making process. As a result, though Summers has impressive academic and political experience, we know very little about his vision for the University...