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...Harvard Corporation, has announced that he will relinquish his position on a major corporate board. Houghton revealed last week that he will resign in late April as non-executive chairman of Corning Incorporated’s Board of Directors. Houghton, who is also the chairman of the search committee charged with choosing Harvard’s 28th president, has worked at the research and technology company for almost four decades. He joined the Harvard Corporation seven months before retiring as chair and CEO of Corning in 1996. However, financial difficulties at the company prompted his return as non-excecutive chairman...
...send an e-mail to the affected students in which she dubbed the incident a “fiasco” and sought to “personally apologize for the failure.” Kagan is currently one of the leading candidates in the University’s search for its 28th president. “The way in which the system worked on Tuesday was unacceptable—for any educational institution, let alone for Harvard,” Kagan wrote. “Tuesday’s grade-viewing demonstrated continuing serious problems in the system, which...
...Search for a President an editorial series Previous editorials: Harvard's Gatekeeper Educating the Educators To the Presidential Search CommitteeHarvard is at a similar juncture today. In five short months, there will again be a new president, the institution is direly in need of change, and the faculty is entrenched in its ways and on the whole resistant to much needed progress. It is hard to fathom Harvard’s 28th president being quite as blunt as Eliot was the outset of his administration—particularly in light of the events that transpired one year ago, which abruptly...
That’s not to say that the presidential search committee should select a leader who lacks the tact necessary to avoid getting caught Harvard’s political spider web. Indeed, the president must work constructively with Harvard’s various faculties, inspire alumni and students alike to join in their vision, and communicate persuasively with donors. The president need not be an agitator. But the presidential search committee must not be afraid to take a leap of faith in selecting a bold leader—as it did six years ago when it selected Lawrence...
...presidential search committee’s increasingly frequent clandestine meetings are any indication, it is on the verge of making its final choice. We hope that before the members of the search committee do so, however, they take a step back and consider which candidate will best follow in the footsteps of presidents who have revolutionized both higher education and Harvard itself...