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...hopes to remain at the top of the heap; this remains as true today as it was when University President Lawrence H. Summers was selected five years ago.Bok and Knowles have the unique opportunity to reprise their past roles and in many ways are the perfect fits for their respective jobs. Each has attained enough gravitas to command the respect of the entire University community, and each has a track record of creating the type of collegial atmosphere that today’s challenges call for. Furthermore, neither has any interest in staying on beyond a year, allowing them...
...small revolution, having gained an education in leadership and citizenship that none of us could have predicted. The imminent departures of both University President Lawrence H. Summers and Kirby, and the events that led up to these ousters, show us that effective leadership depends as much on personality, respect, and fairness as it does on the force of intellect and economic reasoning. Universities cannot impart the lessons of global citizenship in the form of civics lessons, as if learning to be part of a world community could be articulated in a lecture, or summarized in a review sheet. Sure, classes...
...report certainly has its shortcomings, those can only be addressed when serious debate begins. Thus far, it hasn’t. While the Faculty has made progress in terms of expanding the restrictive course offerings of the Core for next year, there has been far too much inertia with respect to discussing necessary, more sweeping reforms.When the Faculty finally got around to discussing the curricular review in April, it managed only to address the issues of secondary fields (or minors) and delaying concentration choice. Whlie we fear that both these initiatives compromise the better aspects of a Harvard undergraduate education...
...your candidate a respected intellectual? Does your candidate have administrative experience? Can your candidate win the respect of faculty? Is your candidate the next president of Harvard University?Can you guess who?Just five years after members of the governing boards celebrated their selection of Lawrence H. Summers as the University’s president, the guessing game is once again being played at Harvard.The search for Summers’ successor is still in its infancy; its stewards are amassing troves of potential names. And in a months-long search process bound to consume the campus, that long list will...
...solve real problems. Any structure can work if the people in it are good and are dedicated to a common purpose; no structure can make up for inexperience and lack of direction of the people in it. In a functioning organization colleagues consult each other, out of respect and in the hope of enlightenment, whatever the lines in the organizational chart may show; in a sick organization individuals look only up and down the authority lines, flattering their bosses and expecting flattery from their staff.A university’s human capital is its greatest asset. A university is little more...