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Harvard, now more then ever, is in need of consensus-building—particularly in the choice of its next president. As discussion inevitably turns from lamenting or deriding our current president to thinking seriously about his successor, we hope that the make-up of the presidential search committee will reflect this need...
...straight shooter doesn’t mean he could avoid controversy. After calling the police on University Hall protestors in 1969, Pusey fell out of favor and resigned two years later.According to a Crimson news article from June 1971, the search for President Pusey’s successor was “unprecedented in the history of any American college,” spanning nine months, considering over 1,200 candidates and costing a whopping $40,000 (translated to today’s dollars, that comes out to about $190,000).Dean of the Law School Derek...
...only encouraged, but is essential because the greatest danger is that something will be left unsaid, not that something unpleasant will be uttered.It is in this light that I offer this modest helping of eminently practical rules for the coming Harvard University President to obey. Follow these, successor to Summers, and you will live out a happy and unmolested presidency. 1) Never Antagonize the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It does not matter whether you are right or wrong. It does not matter that you were merely trying to start a conversation that was long overdue. The University President does...
...last night’s meeting, the UC also passed legislation calling for undergraduate students to have a “formal and significant” role in choosing Summers’ successor...
...ambitious goals," he wrote last week in a letter announcing his resignation. Summers' view that he had inherited a university with urgent problems is in part a way of justifying the highly undiplomatic way he conducted himself as president, but he's hardly alone in his view. His temporary successor, former Harvard president Derek Bok, is about as different from Summers as it is possible to get. He's one of the world's least gaffe-prone people and a staunchly mainstream liberal, where Summers is liberal in a way that makes the conservatives on the faculty swoon...