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Filling the vacancy left by the departure of Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, President Summers announces Steven E. Hyman as the University’s next provost. His appointment is seen by many as reinforcing Summers’ priority on science, as Hyman was the director of the National Institute of Mental Health...
...Princeton, its dynamic duo of new administrators—President Shirley M. Tilghman and Provost Amy Gutmann ’71—have already highly publicized their plans to bring diversity to Princeton, a university that has traditionally had a rather homogenous faculty and student body...
...Former Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 represented the University at a conference held at MIT in February 2001, where he joined with the leaders of eight of the nation’s other top research universities in issuing a statement acknowledging the significant barriers still facing female professors in the natural sciences and engineering fields...
...academic leadership positions prior to taking the helm at Brown included Provost of Spelman College, Vice-Provost at Princeton University and President of Smith College...
These changes had been defined earlier but never acted upon. In an Alumni Bulletin article that appeared in 1946, Provost Paul H. Buck criticized the prevalence in the college of “floppy ducklings,” students who were neither great scholars nor great athletes, musicians or artists. Buck, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, argued that the College still hosted the nation’s top scholars, but that it was not doing enough to attract students that excelled in other ways...