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Skocpol told Summers at a February 2005 Faculty meeting that the president's actions amounted to a "crisis of governance and leadership." At the same time, Skocpol along with Knowles and Libraries chief Sidney Verba ’53 offered themselves up as a committee that could represent the Faculty in its relations with Summers and Harvard's governing boards...
...Michael J. Sandel, Smith Professor of Computer Science Margo I. Seltzer, Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke, and Professor of Greek and Latin Richard F. Thomas. Seltzer, Spelke, and Thomas are currently on leave.At the close of yesterday’s Faculty meeting, retiring University Library chief Sidney Verba ’53 discussed Harvard’s collaboration with Google in digitizing its holdings.“Their goal really is to digitize everything that has been written, spoken, or thought since the invention of the homo sapiens,” said Verba, who holds one of Harvard?...
...world where a student can go from knowing absolutely nothing about a subject to possessing virtually every book and journal article ever written about it in just one afternoon. Harvard is one of those places. For this, we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, who has served as director of the Harvard University Libraries (HUL) for the past 20 years. Over the course of his tenure, Verba has shown a remarkable commitment to keep HUL on the technological edge of library science. But in light of his upcoming retirement from...
Whoever succeeds Verba, according to Faust, will need to be able to deal with unexpected challenges and “anticipate the kind of revolutions we’re likely to encounter in the next 20 years...
...Verba, who is a scholar of political science, has thrived while facing major paradigm shifts...