Word: provosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Pusey had strongly resisted plans for sweeping restructure of the Presidency (such as the creation of a Provost's office to oversee academic affairs...
...experience to spur action on the school's proposed move from an obsolete city campus to a new 1,200-acre suburban site, a plan now blocked by a dispute over the hiring of minority construction workers. Meyerson also streamlined Buffalo into eight faculties, each with its own provost and budget. With rare aplomb, he charmed campus radicals while pioneering the now widely used tactic of getting courts to enjoin seizers of campus buildings. Meyerson's diplomatic tal ents fit Pennsylvania's needs precisely. Despite its Ivy League aura, the 230-year-old university is crammed into...
Dubridge made the comment in the course of a 20 minute telephone conversation with M.I.T. provost Jerome Wiesner, who is one of nine members of Mass. Gov. Francis W. Sargent's Science and Technology Foundation. Sargent named the foundation to aid him in finding new uses for the research center, which is to be closed by June 30. Nixon appointed Dubridge to do the same job in Washington...
Finally, in December, President Heffner appointed an extraordinary nine-member committee- headed by associate provost Paul F. Maeder- with a mandate to propose changes in educational philosophy and practice to the Faculty. Magaziner, Miss Friedman, and Friedel were named to the group, as was Eckelmann, an associate dean of Pembroke, and three professors...
...have no plan at present to move them out," Paul Gray, associate provost of the Institute, told reporters after the faculty meeting last night. "I think the group will recognize that they do not have broad support and will decide to leave...