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...after University President Lawrence H. Summers?? comments on women in science aroused a controversy that made headlines worldwide, the College’s yield rose by one percentage point over the previous year to 78.5 percent...
More than a year after President Lawrence H. Summers delivered his now-infamous speech examining the under-representation of women in the upper echelons of science and engineering, a female professor of electrical engineering and computer science will help to choose Summers?? successor. Susan L. Graham ’64 teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and she has served on Harvard’s Board of Overseers since...
...effective relationship between the new president and the new FAS dean.There is a historical precedent for the selection of an interim dean. Recent Harvard presidents have had the chance to appoint their own deans of the Faculty within the first two years of their tenure—including Summers?? appointment of Kirby and former President Neil L. Rudenstine’s appointment of Jeremy R. Knowles. And Harvard’s next president should have that same opportunity. It is also crucial that undergraduates have a say in the decanal search. The Undergraduate Council (UC) on Sunday called...
...When I came in as director it just made sense to consolidate all that in Boston.” He said that the town had first approached him five years ago about a possible sale of the property, but the timing, with University President Lawrence H. Summers?? newly arrived in his post, was not ideal. Now, however, “it’s clear that the university’s priorities are focused on developing the land in Allston,” Cook said. “So, when the town reapproached me about a year...
Enjoying a respite from the relentless scrutiny of his rocky tenure at Harvard’s helm, University President Lawrence H. Summers??in the midst of a week-long sojourn to South Asia—offered the local media a glimpse of his plans to deepen ties with India in his last months in office. In an interview with The Times of India—one of the country’s leading English-language dailies—Summers suggested that the University would increase its exchange programs with the world’s second most populous country...