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...such an arrangement, the provost would not be part of any rigid hierarchy. Instead, officials predict, Rudenstine will work with a team of administrators...
...doubt very much that Neil is the sort of person who would accept a rigid hierarchy where no one can see Neil who hasn't first gone to the provost," says Bok. "The provost and the president can serve as a kind of informal team, dividing responsibilities as circumstances seem to warrant...
...Fundamentally, I think the job is one that tries to think laterally across the institution," says Rudenstine. "The provost office I think of primarily as an intellectual academic office that would be very clearly working in close partnership with the president. But the main job would be to try to see how one could stitch together the pieces, how to get the whole to operate more collaboratively as a whole across schools...
Rudenstine wants the University to equal more than the sum of its parts, and he wants the separate schools to see themselves as integral parts of a coherent whole. And he sees the provost as one of the crucial links that will make this possible...
...example, if the Kennedy School of Government, the Graduate School of Education, the Business School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences wanted to work together on a project, such as improving primary education, it would be the office of the provost that gets them together to jointly think and work coherently...