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...Tuesday, the University announced that Provost Jerry R. Green, after nearly two years as Harvard's second highest official, would leave his job and assume a newly-created professorship for inter-faculty teaching and research...
...yesterday the Boston Globe, citinganonymous sources, offered its own version ofevents. The Globe called Green's departure a"resignation" prompted by the provost'sexasperation "with futile efforts to unify theschools and colleges, bring together competingdeans and tame the bureaucracy." The paper did notprovide details of any specific problem inside thecentral administration...
...Harvard's first Provost in nearly 40 years, he has played an absolutely central role in the University-wide academic planning process that has unfolded over the last few years. He has made critical contributions to bringing Harvard's different Faculties closer together. He has charted a course through new terrain for many inter-Faculty academic initiatives, and has ably taken on some of the most challenging administrative problems facing the University, in areas as diverse as science policy, benefits planning and information technology...
Both personally and professionally, it has been a privilege for me to work closely with Jerry since he accepted my invitation to become Provost. His new Leverett Professorship is a symbol of the strong commitment that he and I share to scholarship across Faculty lines. It will enable him to combine and build upon his achievements as both Provost and scholar, bringing the insights he has developed through his leadership in inter-Faculty initiatives to bear more directly on the actual practice of interdisciplinary teaching and research. I hope very much that Harvard's next Provost will accomplish as much...
Your articles in the Wednesday, April 13, edition of The Crimson about Professor Jerry Green's decision to leave the post of Provost to become the first John Leverett Professor properly note his many accomplishments as Provost, but inaccurately understate the quality of his contributions as an administrator...