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...waited to cross Quincy Street yesterday evening, the chairman of the presidential search committee, James R. Houghton ’58, said that he had “no update” on the hunt for Harvard’s 28th leader. The search panel was in Cambridge this weekend for a joint session with alumni overseers, who must approve the committee’s choice before a president can be appointed. In recent days, the search committee had been most seriously considering Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust for the post. When asked if he had met with Faust...
...panel’s choice, according to the two individuals. But the committee could also decide to take more time in completing the search if it still has yet to gain the unanimous approval of its members. In order to appoint a new president, the six members of the panel who hail from the University’s executive governing board, the Harvard Corporation, must make a recommendation to the Board of Overseers, the less powerful alumni body. The recommendation is then put to a vote among the 30 overseers. Three overseers serve on the search committee with...
...many top Harvard administrators, including deans and Mass. Hall officials, have urged the panel to finish the search soon to allow for new leadership appointments within the University and to provide ample time for the transition, the two sources said. Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles is expected to serve through the end of the current academic year, which ends June 30. Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin said last fall that he intends to step down on June 30 as well, and the dean of the Graduate School of Design, Alan A. Altshuler...
...search panel last met with the Overseers on Dec. 3. At that meeting, the committee showed the board a list of about 30 presidential contenders, although the panel was seriously considering a shorter list of candidates at the time...
...role of human activity in causing global warming, environmentally-oriented students and faculty at Harvard were agreed: Global warming is real, but there is still much that can be done about it. In its harshest assessment yet of humans’ impact on the environment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body made up of government representatives and scientific experts, released a summary of its fourth report on Friday, concluding with “very high confidence” that humans have had a significant role in causing climate change and will continue to do so increasingly...