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...next president of Harvard can build on Summers?? successes and institute substantial changes if he or she learns from the mistakes Summers made in management style. A successful leader must know when to offer the carrot and when to use the stick. Summers only wielded a stick. If the next president of Harvard balances forcefulness with charm, Harvard will be able to transform itself so that it can remain the preeminent university...
...moment of such uncertainty and change for Harvard, a single universal truth about the community remains unaffected: that the University’s foremost priority must remain the improvement of the undergraduate experience. University President Lawrence H. Summers?? departure will bring many changes, but the place of undergraduates in the University will be unaltered. As Derek C. Bok resumes his role in Mass. Hall, this undergraduate-prioritizing leader (who championed the cause of undergraduate pedagogy in the 1970s and 1980s) will replace another (who called Harvard College “the very heart of the university?...
...wake of University President Lawrence H. Summers?? resignation, just about everyone is trying to diagnose and treat Harvard’s political crisis. One prominent viewpoint prescribes a sort of University senate, whereby the University faculty— and not just each individual one—would have a means to assert its views. This institutional innovation, its supporters claim, would have the double-benefit of preventing overreaching by the president or by any single faculty in university-wide matters...
...when FAS voted “no-confidence” in Summers, confusion ensued. Was this emblematic of widespread discontent throughout the University? More recently, the dearth of support from FAS—presumed by those outside the academy to be representative of all Harvard faculty—prompted Summers?? resignation without any systematic input from faculty of Harvard’s other schools. Harvard needs to adopt a University senate comprised of faculty from every school that would serve to organize and communicate the greater faculty’s collective voice. As Harvard moves forward with...
...also a good deal more resting upon them. For those not enrolled in Religion 1513: A History of Harvard and Its Presidents, let me summarize Professor Gomes’ theory on presidential selection: Presidents are often chosen to compensate for the failings of their predecessors. With complaints about Summers?? top-down style of leadership, it’s tempting to appoint a charming, hands-off president who will leave each of the University’s many divisions to develop on their own provided, so to speak, the chair’s still standing. It?...