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...direct line” by meeting with the heads of each organization, two College administrators say a layer of bureaucracy will likely sit between them. Though a decision will not come for weeks, several College administrators confirm that the planning committee is seriously contemplating a model where the OFA would report to an associate dean, most likely Illingworth. Illingworth would not speculate on the final direction of the restructuring...
...OFA does eventually report to an associate dean, it would be its third demotion on the University food chain overall and second in two years. It initially reported directly to the president until it moved to FAS in keeping with the OFA’s responsibility for undergraduate programming. When founding director Mayman departed two years ago, the OFA again moved down the hierarchy to report to Lewis. And while arts administrators agree that the OFA has a strong working relationship with Illingworth, they stress the importance of having the ear of senior level administrators who allocate resources...
...leaders of Harvard’s arts community don’t say that they believe Summers actively opposes them, but they agree that catching his attention will be difficult, particularly if both the museums and the OFA lose influence in the University’s bureaucracy. OFA administrators say they have tried to catch his interest by co-sponsoring events like the Harlem Boys’ Choir visit in February and organizing a performance for his installation, which Summers has asked the OFA to turn into an annual event. “I don’t mean this...
...issue is less to push a position than to encourage others to come to a position: to add my own voice to a swelling chorus urging FAS and the administration and the OFA to work together to rationalize and foster the arts at Harvard in a way that makes academic sense, financial sense and creative sense. This may not constitute an exercise of awesome Overseer power on my part. But it has been a lot of fun, and maybe it will do some good...
...fuel this expanding interest in the arts; it is rare to find a Harvard first-year with no artistic background or training. An increasingly well-rounded—and often determined—student body has led to a flurry of new arts activity. The Office for the Arts (OFA) now estimates that approximately 3,000 undergraduates—about half the College’s students—are involved in the arts in an ongoing...