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Second, Summers should find a successor who will use the financial flexibility Knowles provided to continue ongoing academic initiatives and pursue new priorities that will benefit undergraduate education. Summers has already said that he intends to place great emphasis on undergraduates, and his next dean of the Faculty should share this priority. To this end, reforming Harvard’s sub-par advising system must be one of the new dean’s prime objectives...
...Summers who will be faced with the daunting challenge of selecting a successor to Knowles from within FAS. While professors and administrators said few names leapt to mind as obvious candidates, many suggested that the new dean would have to follow suit with Summers’ strong engagement with FAS and preconceived plans for the faculty...
...five-month limbo before the resignation takes effect, President Summers is expected to pick Knowles’ successor from within FAS, although Faculty and administrators said as of now there are no clear contenders...
Knowles said yesterday he expects Summers to appoint his successor by the end of the academic year...
...Identifying a successor to Dean Knowles will obviously be a matter of high priority,” Summers said in a statement yesterday. “I will want to consult carefully as the process unfolds, and will be in further touch about this important search in the time ahead...