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Departing from his generally reserved manner and leaning forward in his chair he explains "I would like to find ways in which we can get smaller groups of students and faculty working together on scholarly projects of genuine educational content in a continuing way." The proposition sounds vague but Tosteson declines, for now, to be more specific...
...approve a set of recommendations that a comprehensive program for teaching evaluation be developed, and that the evaluations be used in considering faculty appointments. So far, the faculty members working on the program have mainly worked on field trials of possible evaluation methods, but they plan to meet with Tosteson this fall to discuss possibilities for the broader implementation of the program...
...Tosteson is still feeling out possible changes in the teaching set-up, he has already changed the school's administrative structure to fit his style. He has created four deanships under his direction to handle four specific areas of concern--finance and business, students and alumni, academic programs, and medical services. Ebert's administrative set-up had less structure; when he retired after 12 years as dean, the school's administration had more informal lines of command...
...Tosteson has chosen Henry Meadow as his dean for finance and business. Meadow handled the same affairs with a different title under Ebert. The dean for students and alumni, Dr. Daniel Federman, is new to the Med School administration. Tosteson has not yet appointed the deans for academic programs or medical services. The latter will also serve as vice president of the Affiliated Hospitals Center, a group of three Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals that is building one consolidated facility...
...Tosteson, himself, also has a hand in hospital administration. As president of the Harvard Medical Center--really a council of hospital officials--Tosteson hopes better to coordinate the activities of the 13 hospitals affiliated with Harvard. Tosteson says the council, which includes the chairmen of the board of each affiliated hospital, was created in the early '60s for fund-raising purposes, but fell into disuse. Ebert reinvigorated the group three years ago with strong encouragement from President Bok, Tosteson says...