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...Office of the Provost announces the creation of interdisciplinary academic grants toward groups of students from at least three different schools. Up to $3,000 will be awarded in one year grants with the goal of encouraging collaboration amongst students throughout the University...
Harvard announces that it will not block access to Napster. The Crimson learned that Daniel D. Moriarty, assistant provost for information technology, will send a letter to Dr. Dre and Mettallica attorney Howard E. King informing him that Harvard has refused his request to restrict access to Napster...
...search committee, which includes three professors, three deans, a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and former Provost Jerry R. Green, was formed after Cleary announced his retirement in December...
...support and supervision of these initiatives as well as other University activities prompted Rudenstine to resurrect the position of provost, which had been phased out in 1953 at the end of the tenure of President James B. Conant ’14. The provost position created another level of centralization that was perceived as lessening the power of the deans, who had previously been accountable directly to the president. The inevitable tension that arose between the deans and the office of the provost, which is still considered amorphous by Harvard standards, will be a legacy left to Summers...
Although the reestablishment of the provost position complicated the president’s relationship with the deans, Rudenstine was able to bring closure to one of the most complex relationships on campus: that between Harvard and Radcliffe. Through his attention to detail and skill in negotiation, Rudenstine brokered a deal that brought an end to the often unstable division between Harvard and Radcliffe. In October of 1998, Radcliffe College became the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, with a new mission statement and full accountability to the Harvard administration. While the move unavoidably disappointed some, it brought a finality and transparency...