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From its reestablishment in 1991, the provost’s central purpose has been to coordinate interfaculty relation. As provost, Fineberg oversaw the maturation and creation of several “interfaculty initiatives” and continued to encourage further integration of the University’s parts...
...with the first opportunity to modify Rudenstine’s conception of the provost position, observers say Summers has an unprecedented opportunity...
Faculty say Summers’ challenge in defining the role of the next provost is deciding which of the big issues—the expansion in Allston, undergraduate education, science—he wants the provost to be involved in, deciding how that involvement will work and equipping the provost with the resources commensurate with the task...
...central leadership,” Jorgenson says. “Moving the Cambridge part of Harvard into the surrounding territories generates the same type of tension as [University] integration has. These are coordination issues—it’s a great opportunity to develop a role for the provost in working out the internal details, while leaving the external, political matters to the president,” he says...
...same time though, delegation of the Allston coordination to the provost would be an increase in responsibility...