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...Among his top goals, the newly arrived Rudenstine cited improving undergraduate education, diversity and student aid. Above all, he intended to “knit the University together” by creating programs between the faculties and introducing the first post-war provost. Rudenstine wanted to shift the age-old University paradigm of “every tub on its own bottom” to “every tub on each other’s bottom,” to create an interdependent relationship between the many tubs—aka faculties—of the University...
...fact, exhausted. 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...
...From the beginning, certain names came to mind. Within the University, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg `67, Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin and Business School Dean Kim B. Clark `74 were oft-mentioned. Beyond the gates, former Stanford Provost Condoleezza "Condi" Rice, the Dean of Stanford Law School Kathleen M. Sullivan, Nobel Laureate Harold E. Varmus, and a little-known—at least in the academic world—Treasury Secretary named Lawrence H. Summers were considered viable options...
...around 1 p.m., President Neil L. Rudenstine—the seventh member of the Corporation—arrived for the afternoon's meeting, bringing along Fineberg in his role as provost. Throughout the next two hours, the Corporation functioned normally. No one mentioned to Fineberg that a decision had been made...
Stavins said the idea to start EEPHU came from a discussion he had with University Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 and Ira Jackson, director of the Center of Business and Government at the Kennedy School. Once the idea for the program was firmly established, the center provided grant funding...