Word: pulpitation
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...Rudenstine didn’t pull out. And here he is, 10 years later. In his wake he leaves a conflicting record—the potential for a larger campus, a fatter wallet, a more diverse University, but a diminished bully pulpit and a distinct sense of distance between students and University administration...
...think each person brings different things to the job. I think it’s harder today to use the presidency as a bully pulpit than it was twenty years ago,” Huidekoper says...
...speak softly, but carry a big stick.” With its position at the forefront of national education, the mantra might as well be about Harvard. Historically, some of the nation’s most important education reforms have emerged from Harvard’s own bully pulpit...
...According to Rudenstine, there has been a historical shift in the meaning of the bully pulpit in relation to university presidencies. Over the last 50 years, he says, the number of institutions of higher education has rapidly increased...
...hindsight, it all makes perfect sense. George W. Bush has a campaign wish list, a solid House majority and a split-down-the-middle Senate. So he uses the bully pulpit and the House's Republican leadership to set the high bid - $1.6 trillion in tax cuts, 4-percent growth in discretionary spending - and in the Senate, let the centrist Democrats make the counteroffer. Bush takes his 55 votes and calls it a compromise...