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...governor had an impressive academic recordat Harvard. He was one of only 45 students in hisclass to graduate summa cum laude, he was a PhiBeta Kappa member, he received a Detur Prize and aJohn Harvard Scholarship and he presented theLatin Oration at the 1966 Commencement ceremonies...
...writing in regard to your coverage in yesterday's edition of Provost Jerry Green's decision to assume a distinguished new professorship designed to promote scholarship across traditional disciplinary lines. Given the tenor of your coverage, the exceptional service that Jerry has rendered to the University as Provost, I feel it important to convey my thoughts directly...
Both personally and professionally, it has been a privilege for me to work closely with Jerry since he accepted my invitation to become Provost. His new Leverett Professorship is a symbol of the strong commitment that he and I share to scholarship across Faculty lines. It will enable him to combine and build upon his achievements as both Provost and scholar, bringing the insights he has developed through his leadership in inter-Faculty initiatives to bear more directly on the actual practice of interdisciplinary teaching and research. I hope very much that Harvard's next Provost will accomplish as much...
...addition to these demographic considerations, academic factors enter the search process. Harvard must maintain its high level of scholarship. Affirmative Action does not result in the hiring of inferior faculty; it merely makes a minority background a pertinent qualification when two candidates are equally matched in all other respects...
...background is no-frills working class. He grew up in Mexicali, where his electrician father installed movie screens. A Mexican-government scholarship sent him to Yale, and there he wrote a dissertation about his country's external-debt crisis. Zedillo then came home to a central-bank job, which paved the way for his appointment as Budget Minister and later Education Minister under Salinas. These days he lives in a comfortable though not ostentatious house in Mexico City, a far cry from his childhood home. With his own five children, Zedillo is an avid mountain biker. Though he has been...