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When asked to define her vision last month, University President Drew G. Faust stopped for a moment.
“I think the key thing for the president is that they end up spending a lot of time recruiting staff and deans, and she has done a lot in that score by picking the academic leadership that has the spirit and style that she has,?...
“Faculty in general don’t respond well to high authority leadership,” Leonard explains. “I think President Faust understands that.”
“What counts is what you do when you have the flexibility to do it,” Business School Professor and former University Provost Jerry R. Green says. “You know, every president has their own style.”
At a time when the United States government supported then-Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who was described by The Economist as a “fundamentalist Sunni dictator,” it is even more important to be clear about academic independence, Lelyveld added in his letter.