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...over. University presidents, more than anyone, have a special responsibility to think deeply about how best to prepare their students to advance in a prejudiced world. I hope that an important criterion in selecting Harvard’s next president will be sensitivity to this issue. BEN A. BARRES Stanford, Calif. March 1, 2006 The writer is professor of neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine...
...involve students and faculty from across the University in the search for Summers’ replacement. This is not without precedent. In 2000, Princeton University, which has a considerably smaller graduate student population than Harvard, had one graduate student and two undergraduates on its 18-member presidential search committee. Stanford, too, named one undergraduate and one graduate student to its 15-member search committee in 1999. By contrast, Summers was selected by a committee consisting of six members of the Harvard Corporation and three members of the alumni-elected Board of Overseers. Harvard cannot afford to limit the role...
Private gifts to Harvard rose last year, but Stanford and the University of Wisconsin-Madison both garnered more in gifts than Harvard, according to a report released last month...
Shutting out students and faculty from official positions on the presidential search committee would be an ugly anachronism in the context of the practices of competing institutions. In 2000, Princeton University’s 18-person presidential search committee included three students and five faculty members, while Stanford University’s 14-person committee included two students and six faculty members. The most recent presidential searches at Columbia University and Duke University also included both students and faculty on the formal recommending body. Harvard stood as a lone holdout in its own 2000 presidential search. It?...
...most places,” Orfield said. “If the instructional program isn’t that good, students need to have a voice.” Harvard wouldn’t be the first school to establish a University senate—many institutions, including Stanford and Columbia, already have such bodies.A former member of Stanford’s business faculty, Rajiv Lal, who is now the Roth professor of retailing at Harvard Business School, said that “when FAS had a meeting and a vote of no confidence, there was no process by which...