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...crisis of the spring semester ’05 to dealing with urgent issues facing FAS and the university in the fall 05,” McDonald writes in an e-mail. “There was a sense of focus and purpose.”A VOCAL ROLEIn September, for the first time, a major public statement emerged from the group. About two dozen former and current department heads wrote to the six-member panel charged with finding a replacement for Conrad K. Harper [see page 11], who had stepped down from the Harvard Corporation due to disagreements with...
Harvard saw the proposal as far too ambitious:It called for Radcliffe to maintain a large rolein undergraduate education and to have 15 or morepermanent faculty members. The new Institute wouldhave an annual budget of about $50 million, morediscretionary money than all but the largest ofthe University's faculties--or tubs, as they'reknown in Harvard-speak...
They could not agree on fundraising--who couldproperly solicit whom. Or on governance issues,like whether the current RadcliffeBoard--including Sheerr--should have a formal rolein shaping the fledgling Institute...
Many countries are now encouraging their topstudents to attend college in the United States,hoping they will return to play a leadership rolein their mother country...
With efforts like the Harvard College Women'sInitiative, a $1.25 million grant from donors whowanted to recognize Harvard--not Radcliffe's--rolein women's undergraduate education, Radcliffeeventually conceded that its original mission hadbeen fulfilled...