Word: rudenstineã
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...Rudenstine??s successor has already vowed to pay attention to the College, expressing interest in significantly enlarging the Faculty, for example. But Rudenstine had the same goal. It remains to be seen whether the president of the University is the man for that...
...Perhaps Rudenstine??s most significant change to Harvard’s administration was the recreation of the provost position, which Pusey had eliminated. Rudenstine envisioned the Provost as a “cloned president,” as not only a tool for delegation, but also a means of unifying the University. For example, the provost’s office now oversees interfaculty initiatives, one of Rudenstine??s favorite projects, which unify academic interests—like Mind, Brain and Behavior—across the schools...
...Rudenstine??s centralizing mission may have been largely successful. He has been the University’s president—not the College’s. While much of what he has done has strengthened the College, Harvard’s undergraduate education continues to have—at the very least—an image problem: large classes, distant Faculty and poor advising. It is a problem that caused the presidential search committee this year to hunt for someone who would do the same thing Rudenstine did at the beginning of his term: trumpet the College...
...post-Capital Campaign era, the Harvard presidency may no longer be a position suited to this task. On some level, at a University whose reach is so vast and whose population so large, connecting with students—once Rudenstine??s forté—became an impossibility. The president who once had large pizza-box signs in the Yard proclaiming students’ love for him departs a College in which he is seen as remote, in which student protesters launch their anger at him, Harvard’s most visible leader...
...around 1 p.m., President Neil L. Rudenstine??the seventh member of the Corporation—arrived for the afternoon’s meeting, bringing along Fineberg in his role as provost. Throughout the next two hours, the Corporation functioned normally. No one mentioned to Fineberg that a decision had been made...