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...Sciences (FAS) will have its first full meeting of the semester today, as administrators attempt to keep professors’ attention on the curricular review in the wake of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s resignation and continuing unhappiness with University President Lawrence H. Summers?? leadership. The review has made noticeable progress in recent months. All the committee reports have been completed and compiled. A number of Faculty meetings this fall were spent discussing the reports. And draft legislation for changes to concentrations has been considered by the Faculty Council, the governing body...
...longstanding rift between the two men is reportedly the result of a clash of styles—Summers?? blunt approach grated against Kirby’s more soft-spoken manner. Yet a working relationship between the dean of the Faculty and the president is pivotal to the dean’s ability to act as an intermediary between the Faculty and Massachusetts Hall. Their personal dispute came to a head last year over Summers?? intervention in the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR)— of which Kirby was chair—a move that many...
Over the next four months however, Summers?? search for a replacement should not focus solely on finding a comforting yes-man. As a liaison between the president and the Faculty at large , the dean needs to forcefully represent the views of the Faculty and maintain a strong relationship with the president. And when policy disagreements arise between Summers and the new dean—as they surely will—the dean should not hesitate to firmly stand his or her ground. He or she must not be seen as a mere executor of the president?...
...Gordon also noted that some faculty were frustrated last year with Kirby’s failure to “stand up more forcefully” during the aftermath surrounding University President Lawrence H. Summers?? comments on women in science, but said Kirby felt it was “important to present a unified front publicly...
...curricular review’s progress ground to a halt last year as Faculty meetings were monopolized with discussion of Summers?? comments on women in science, culminating in a vote of no-confidence in March...