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...What you’re moving toward is a model in which the president is really an outside person and other people, maybe a provost, or associate provost, begins to take up more of the internal responsibilities,” he said...
...member who has a spouse that needs an academic and/or professional position, deans and their faculty affairs staffs have had to call around to other institutions to see if they had positions available that might work for these individuals,” wrote Harvard’s senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, Evelynn M. Hammonds, in an e-mail. “This is a very time consuming process. We believe that the HERC tool will help make that process easier since faculty and professional positions will be posted on the site,” she added...
...size of the disparity that's surprising. And since early applicants are more likely to be admitted, it does seem to support Harvard President Derek Bok's claim that early admissions "advantage the advantaged." Of course, there are several legitimate counterpoints to that, primary of which is Stanford Provost John Etchemendy's IRS analogy in his Times op-ed, which concludes: There is nothing about early admissions, in itself, that gives an advantage to those who apply early. It all depends on whether the university imposes lower, the same, or higher standards to the early pool. Nor can you infer...
...reason may be the tepid response from other rivals, now trickling out over the op-ed pages of national newspapers. Following Stanford Provost John Etchemendy's defiant stance in the New York Times last week, UPenn President Amy Gutmann took to the Washington Post on Sunday with a similar defense of early admissions. (The Daily Pennsylvanian notes the latter today...
...travel to Cuba unless the student is from a university that has applied for and received an academic exchange license from the U.S. Treasury Department. The arduous process of obtaining this license took 18 months, and permission lasts for only one year, according to Harvard’s vice provost for international affairs, Jorge I. Dominguez. The Cuban-born Dominguez wrote in an e-mail to the Crimson, “We will apply again for a license [next year] but have no certainty whether we will get it or by what time.” Even now that Harvard...