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...have also divided their work on search committees exploring possible candidates for positions to be filled by the next president...
...Harvard picks its next president, top City of Cambridge officials are calling for a leader attuned to local concerns. The Presidential Search Committee, the nine-member panel tasked with picking Harvard’s next chief, has only personally solicited the views of Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 on what characteristics Harvard’s incoming leader should possess, council members said at yesterday’s meeting. According to Reeves, the mayor’s office received an invitation to a one-on-one meeting with a University official at the Harvard Faculty Club...
...done right, the new “what it means to be human” requirement actually holds great potential to ameliorate the report’s anti-intellectual pragmatism. The search for truth, meaning, and purpose is something that all students have in common, and this quest belongs at the center of any truly humane education. Sadly, these questions have largely been abandoned by universities, leaving students to search for meaning themselves through chaplaincies, counseling services, and late-night dorm room bull sessions...
...considered for the presidency of MIT in 2004, the top job at Boston University in 2005, and was a finalist in the University of Chicago’s presidential search last spring, according to a source close to the provost...
...part to family considerations, the source says. Now, with the disclosure that his name is on the list of candidates for Harvard’s own presidency released to the Board of Overseers earlier this month, Hyman has found himself in the thick of yet another presidential search...