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Sterritt will be replacing Georgene B. Herschbach, who accepted the early retirement incentive package for staff offered last spring—vacating the post of dean for administration and concluding nearly three decades of service at Harvard. Herschbach will remain on campus to facilitate the process of her successor??s transition, according to Sterritt...
...Elo’s “In on Blue,” a sort of “Midsummer Night’s Dream” set in water, evoking a fairy underworld and land of mer-people. Elo, a Finnish choreographer and the acclaimed “successor?? to William Forsythe, evidently takes transition to the modern very seriously: the ballet featured women in bejeweled tutus but no pointe shoes, and steps in the purely classical ballet idiom crassly segued into flexed feet and robotic contractions. It was interesting, then, to watch Forsythe?...
After leading FAS from 1991 until 2002, Knowles stepped down as Dean and returned to pure academia. But when his successor??William C. Kirby—was forced out of office in 2006, Knowles’s dedication to the Faculty was proven when he returned to University Hall in 2006 for one year as the interim Dean of FAS. Even though he already had been diagnosed with cancer, Knowles returned at a time when the University needed him and has since then (and until very recently) been a reassuring presence at faculty events and University gatherings...
...Applied Sciences—will allow the FAS dean to further shape the distribution of the Faculty across the disciplines. But with Knowles scheduled to step down as interim dean in late June—and with President-elect Drew G. Faust yet to name Knowles’ successor??some professors have questioned whether the dean’s plan will proceed even after his tenure ends. “It will most certainly be high on the agenda for the next dean,” said Everett I. Mendelsohn, a history of science professor and member...
Upon returning from Davos several days after the leak, Summers was greeted with a chorus of blame for the public embarrassment of Kirby. He had tried to quell the rising Faculty anger by compromising with professors on the process for appointing Kirby’s successor??a power traditionally exerted solely by the president—but even that did not placate his staunchest critics...