Word: successor
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...first known visit to campus since being appointed interim president. In meetings with professors, he encountered a faculty still shaken by the resignations of University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, and still uncertain about how the search for Kirby’s successor will work...
...decide whether or not Kirby’s successor will serve as only an interim dean who would be replaced by a new dean appointed by the next University president. Bok, as interim president, will only hold the post until Harvard’s governing boards select a permanent successor to Summers...
...upsetting about this week’s swirl of controversy is that concrete proposals for improving the quality of life of Harvard’s freshmen are being pushed out of the discussion. Instead of swallowing its collective pride and beginning the work of shaping its successor, the Prefect Program’s board seems intent on throwing a tantrum about what it feels was an inadequate amount of consultation. That’s a real shame, since huge improvements to freshman advising aren’t just attainable, they would be remarkably simple to put into place...
...University’s associate vice president for sponsored programs, in which she has helped oversee regulations for funding research endeavors such as the Broad Institute, the genomics collaboration between Harvard and MIT. Mora will return to her old job once Harvard finishes its search for a long-term successor to Berman. Berman announced in September that she would step down from her position as finance VP at the end of this March to spend half of the year living in Italy and half back at Harvard in an advisory role. Like Mora, Berman, who began as acting finance...
...support of the Faculty for projects such as bringing to a conclusion and implementing the Harvard College Curricular Review and forging ahead with the Allston Expansion which will define the Harvard experience for decades. Without full and honest disclosure from the Faculty of why this presidency was unsuitable, his successor may well founder on the same rocks Summers...