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This is the third article in a continuing series. Part 1: Provost Considered for Top Post Part 2: Will These Cowboy Boots March West...
...expansion will increase the capacity of Harvard’s buildings—already 24 million square feet—by about 20 percent over the next two decades. And the plan includes possible locations for four undergraduate Houses along the south bank of the Charles. But Provost Steven Hyman, speaking by phone from Geneva, Switzerland, said that “the number of undergraduate students will stay the same.” The College’s student body now numbers slightly over...
...three Quad Houses would be converted into graduate-student residences as well as homes for faculty members, the provost said. Four new Houses would be built over the next 20 years on top of what is now the Blodgett Pool, the Briggs Cage basketball arena, the Dillon Field House, and the Palmer Dixon Courts, according to a map released by the University. The Athletics Area would be extended to the south to accommodate the displaced facilities...
...names on the list, including Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead; Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Syracuse University; Kim B. Clark ’74, former Harvard Business School dean and now president of Brigham Young University-Idaho; Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan; Steven Knapp, provost of Johns Hopkins University; David W. Oxtoby '72, president of Pomona College; Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; and Harold E. Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center president and 1989 Nobel laureate in medicine...
...Other mentioned candidates who have not been confirmed to be on the committee's short list include University of California President Robert C. Dynes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson, Cornell Provost Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, Amherst College President Anthony W. Marx, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace President Jessica Tuchman Mathews ’67. —Aditi Banga, Stephanie S. Garlow, Samuel P. Jacobs, and Brittney L. Moraski contributed to the reporting of this story —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff...