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...viability of the provostship in a vastly decentralized bureaucracy was hotly debated among the Deans when Rudenstine resurrected the position in 1991. The debate increased after Rudenstine's first provost, University Professor Jerry R. Green, resigned in frustration three years later...
...July 1, Carnesale will leave the University for the chancellorship of the University of California Los Angeles, and with him will go his nonsense approach. That same day, Harvey V. Fineberg '67, dean of the School of Public Health, will become Rudenstine's third provost in as many years, and, again, the necessity of a No. 2 academic administrator at Harvard is contested...
...when Rudenstine revived the provost, it isn't surprising that the Deans grumbled at the prospect of losing their autonomy. And Green gave them good reason, issuing two reports rich with University-wide proposals that would have dramatically revamped centralized policies on retirement benefits and research funding--issues on which the lords of the nine castles expected to be consulted but were...
Previously the provost was a second step in the ladder of central administration hierarchy, another layer of bureaucracy. Now the provost and the president share the same box on the official Mass. Hall organizational chart...
...That was not just a mechanical and visual solution," says Associate Provost Dennis F. Thompson. "It actually represents the idea that people would come to either the president or the provost for decisions on most questions...