Word: summersã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...extend “the committee’s desire to see him serve,” as the Senior Fellow later phrased it. Stone called Summers, and then flew to Washington to make the offer again in person. For the next week, the committee waited anxiously for Summers?? decision...
Overseers present at the meeting said committee members individually explained their reasons for selecting Summers??highlighting his intelligence, vision and focus on undergraduates. Afterwards, Summers himself discussed the importance of Harvard’s mission, describing it as a catalyst for new ideas...
Overseer C. Dixon Spangler Jr., who was present at the meeting, described Summers?? presentation as “well thought...
...College is the center of the University’s educational program, undergraduate education must be the central focus of Summers?? reforms. For all that Harvard offers, students are far too often left adrift in large, impersonal concentrations—-and even larger and more impersonal classes. Summers?? reported plans to hire as many as 200 new professors, as well as to encourage a significantly higher rate of tenure for junior professors, would by themselves change the face of the Faculty, but they would have even greater effects on the undergraduate experience. The unparalleled knowledge...
...Summers?? mandate for change will extend far beyond the College. As his predecessor has done, Summers must work to build coherence out of Harvard’s many faculties. Because the administration and budgeting processes of Harvard’s many schools are almost entirely separate, efforts to combine resources across the University have been limited and hard-won. The interfaculty initiatives in which Rudenstine justifiably took pride must be strengthened and expanded, especially in the areas in which Harvard can make the greatest progress. Work in the sciences—-and especially the biological sciences?...