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...partnership with the federal government’s Indian Health Service (IHS) last week that echoes the goal to educate “English and Indian youth” outlined in Harvard’s 1650 charter. IHS is a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. Provost Steven E. Hyman and Charles W. Grim, assistant surgeon general and director of IHS, signed a memorandum of understanding on Feb. 21 announcing that they will be collaborating on an effort to improve the health of the country’s Native American population. “Improving our understanding...
...time by President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, who led the University from 1869 to 1909.Though the body has gone through some changes, a shell of the Academic Council still exists today. A 1997 re-accreditation report lists an Academic Council chaired by the president and including the provost as well as “the deans of the several faculties,” and the Graduate School of Design still lists the Academic Council in its faculty handbook. But the Academic Council—with just a few top administrators among its members?...
Philosopher and political scientist Amy Gutmann ’71 likewise made the short list in Harvard’s last presidential search, The Crimson reported. In 2004, the University of Pennsylvania lured Gutmann away from her provost post at Princeton to take the helm of the Philadelphia school. It remains to be seen whether Gutmann’s memories of her undergraduate days in Radcliffe’s South House—now named Cabot—would pull her back to her alma mater...
...early April, that dean, Peter T. Ellison, met with the Caucus of Chairs, an informal group of department heads. He described how earlier last year, Summers had considered shifting some of the graduate school’s power over Ph.D. programs to the Office of the Provost, in the central administration...
...Provost Steven E. Hyman, Harvard’s second-highest ranking official, is expected to retain his post, according to the Corporation’s open letter...