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LAST week, Associate Vice President for State and Community Relations Jacqueline O'Neill announced that she planned to leave her post in June. Her departure, along with the selection of Kristen S. Demong to head Harvard Real Estate, could provide a unique opportunity for the University to improve relations with the city...
However, during O'Neill's 12-year tenure, city officials have often charged that Harvard is not doing enough to support the community. City residents have complained that the University has made complex real estate decisions without adequately consulting them. As the principle liason between Harvard and the city, O'Neill has had to bear the brunt of that criticism...
Despite these complaints, city officials and community activists alike last week said they would be sorry to see her leave. Although the principle tensions between the University and the city have not changed in recent years, many said that O'Neill had done much to promote discussion between the two groups...
...picking a successor to O'Neill, Harvard needs to think about how it can provide the most support to the community. It is crucial to have an administrator who, like O'Neill, is outside the real estate business, who has close ties to the city and who is willing to listen. If the University fails to pick such a successor, choosing to think of itself as an entity separate and distinct from Cambridge, Harvard may do the city irreparable harm. And by hurting the surrounding community, the University will hurt itself...
...O'Neill said in an interview last week, Harvard is here to stay, so it must maintain comfortable relations with the community...