Word: phelanã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Phelan??s Dismissal Puts Harvard Arts in Peril
...issue, the accusations against Phelan are suspect. Phelan is criticized for long-standing administrative failings in the department, though she only held the position of chair for less than two years. Moreover, a report from FAS Personnel issued after they conducted a thorough organizational assessment of the department during Phelan??s first year as chair pointed to no failings on Phelan??s part, but acknowledged instead the “total faculty consensus that [Phelan??s] dual role of Chairperson of VES and Director of the Carpenter Center is a completely unmanageable...
...wrote that the absence of Executive Dean of the Faculty Nancy Maull “will make it very hard for us to think through all the pedagogical, structural, and administrative, and educational issues, and to understand the intersecting concerns of appointments, space and resources that [Phelan??s] letter raises.” More than a full year later, Phelan still had not received any substantive response from the dean...
Phelan and the department looked forward to a substantive review of VES and its role at Harvard by an external review committee scheduled for the spring of 2001. This visiting committee of nationwide stature had not reviewed the department for five years and was to return April 10-11. Phelan??s unanswered letter to Knowles of September 1999 and thoughtful additional comment from many other faculty were scheduled to be sent to the visiting committee on Friday, March 16. Instead, on March 15, when Knowles asked Phelan to resign as chair of the department, he also informed...
...chair selected by the dean with their support, the new chair has neither expertise nor experience in the field, and it is unknown how or when this dialogue will occur. You write that you “hope that the new chair will be able to continue Phelan??s vision.” Instead of merely hoping, The Crimson and the Harvard community should challenge the dean to support that vision and to maintain a place for the arts at Harvard...