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Rudenstine acknowledges that he should have realized that he was “pressing too hard” at the beginning of his tenure. By 1994, he had run down his own health to the point that he had to take three months off. His then-provost, Al Carnesale, took over as acting president, and Rudenstine became the national poster boy for exhaustion, even making the cover of Newsweek...
Rudenstine doesn’t ask for specific amounts of money. Rudenstine doesn’t beg. Rudenstine explains. Rudenstine muses. Rudenstine charms. And with the aid of Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 and Stone—the other two thirds of the campaign’s core trio—he was damn near irresistible...
Despite the damage done to Harvard’s image, Associate Provost Dennis F. Thompson points out that the purchase of the Allston land—which some have dubbed the “Rudenstine campus”—exemplifies Rudenstine’s vision for the future...
Rudenstine arrived at Harvard fresh off a stint as an executive vice president at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Prior to that, he had served as a dean and provost at Princeton. The adjustment to Harvard wasn’t easy. Whereas Princeton was a small environment, heavily focused on undergraduates and without many graduate students. Harvard, with its nine graduate schools, was more complicated. There were more players. And true to Gomes’ words, the University president was often the one with the least power...
Perhaps Rudenstine’s most significant change to Harvard’s administration was the recreation of the provost position, which Pusey had eliminated. Rudenstine envisioned the Provost as a “cloned president,” as not only a tool for delegation, but also a means of unifying the University. For example, the provost’s office now oversees interfaculty initiatives, one of Rudenstine’s favorite projects, which unify academic interests—like Mind, Brain and Behavior—across the schools...