Word: summersã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heavy-handed approach that alienated other participants.“The outgoing president wanted things done in a particular way. He wanted something he could sell,” says one member of the committee who asked to remain anonymous.Within the Committee on General Education, the member says, Summers?? participation hindered the members’ ability to produce the report they wanted.“We [on the committee] were either being pushed to make decisions or being struck down when we did make decisions,” the committee member says. Menand says that, contrary to faculty...
...into Allston, along with as many as eight new undergraduate houses to replace those in the Radcliffe Quadrangle.After nearly a year without significant activity on the ground in Allston, the University announced the architects and locations of the first new buildings in February—only four days before Summers?? resignation. The University is now set to submit a draft of its new Institutional Master Plan to the City of Boston within the calendar year, outlining its intentions for the next half century.“President Summers?? departure should not disrupt the process...
...seemed as though Summers couldn’t leave that pace behind when he arrived in Cambridge. Initiatives were introduced at breakneck speed, stretching the University’s collective attention to its limits. This type of administrative ambition would normally be unwelcome at a decentralized academic institution, but Summers?? presidency provided two reasons why rapid change might work at the traditionally intractable Harvard. First, in 2001, rapid change was just what the presidential search committee was looking for and, seemingly, just what Harvard needed. After a decade in which the University was relatively stagnant in most respects...
...heads that McDonald coordinated this past fall, saw its position strengthened.Before McDonald, the chair of the Romance languages and literatures department, took over as caucus coordinator, the group’s six-month history primarily consisted of discussions among department heads who had complaints about University President Lawrence H. Summers?? handling of tenure reviews.By the time she handed off the administration of the group to two new leaders at the end of the fall semester, the caucus had matured into a body that dealt with a far wider range of issues within the Faculty or Arts and Sciences...
...Arts and Sciences and subsequent resignation. I fear that some of the most important sides of his multifaceted presidency will be lost in an effort to dramatize an unquestionably tumultuous five years. In particular, the prejudice of history may overlook his tremendous commitment to undergraduates, an aria of Summers?? tragic opera for which I was lucky enough to hold a front-row seat.You see, by some strange alignment of the stars, President Summers was my freshman year academic adviser. I’m not quite sure how or why it happened, although luck and my interest in economics...