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Life tenures aren't the norm around Harvard, and administrators phase in and out of posts, but 2009 was host to a few surprising resignations??€”and they didn't bode too well for a University in dire need of the best advice and talent during a time of especial fiscal constraints. In late May, Harvard announced that its then-Executive Vice President Edward C. Forst '82 would leave the University for Wall Street, where he had worked for 26 years. But Forst was not the only high-profile finance administrator to leave the University at the tail...
...released their reports by this January, most of their recommendations remain unimplemented. Most of the reforms have been precise, sure-footed, and wide-ranging, and we look forward to their immediate implementation. Yet the future of the curricular review has unnecessarily come into doubt in recent months with two resignations??€”those of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and of University President Lawrence H. Summers. We reiterate Kirby’s warning in his annual Letter to the Faculty this year, that “Harvard is otherwise at risk of becoming a great university with merely...
Good things may come to those who wait, but when it comes to the curricular review, Harvard College has waited long enough. The future of the curricular review has come into doubt in recent weeks with the announcements of two resignations??€”that of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and of University President Lawrence H. Summers. But in his annual Letter to the Faculty last week, Kirby voiced his support for the Faculty and Faculty Council to push forward with the curricular review this spring. He called the curricular review “our highest priority...
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