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...recent selection and approval of Steven E. Hyman as the University’s new provost is a positive indication that President Lawrence H. Summers intends to deliver on the promises he made during his installation speech. Hyman represents an excellent choice to help Summers’ administration deliver an increased emphasis on the sciences, centered on an improved undergraduate science curriculum, as well as new interdisciplinary initiatives that span the university’s diverse schools, institutes and departments...
Since its modern establishment at the beginning of former University President Neil L. Rudenstine’s tenure a decade ago, the position of provost has remained somewhat amorphous, resulting in unnecessary disputes and inefficiency. We hope that Summers’ administration will establish a more concrete role for Hyman than was held by his three predecessors, and that he will use his position in order to work with Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles to facilitate tangible improvements to the undergraduate experience...
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Director Steven E. Hyman was officially named to the position of University provost yesterday after a meeting with the Harvard Corporation...
...modern office of provost at Harvard, established by University President Neil L. Rudenstine at the beginning of his tenure, has never had a clear definition. And though three men have already filled the role of Harvard’s second-most senior administrative officer, defining the provost’s duties remains a “work in progress,” Hyman said...
...think it’s really a little bit early. I don’t want to be presumptuous,” he said. “The position of provost is also not so old or deeply entrenched, and there are a lot of possibilities...