Word: deanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Graham took over the deanship three years ago, though, the emphasis changed radically, with the program becoming a more competitive one, carrying fewer and higher stipends and greater academic distinction. Graham said last week that in the "old days, the sixties, it was avant garde" to enable women to return to the work force, adding that the fellowship's former role is now carried out by other programs within the Institute itself...
...education--"to give the students their money's worth, which isn't a Harvard tradition"--James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, says Bok has restricted his role largely to establishing funding for professors experimenting with new teaching methods. It was not until Henry Rosovsky took over the Faculty deanship that a wholesale review of undergraduate education began, one in which Bok has participated as a member of the committee coordinating Rosovsky's seven task forces. Steiner says that Bok believed no such review could occur before the Pusey-era splits had healed, creating a consensus that would allow...
...College deanship won't be the only post that Rosovsky will have vacant. Skiddy von Stade '38, dean of freshmen, will be retiring this year. "The problem with Whit stepping up like this is that Skiddy is stepping down at the same time," Edward T. Wilcox, director of the Freshman Seminar program, and long-time University Hall watcher, said last week...
Prominent candidates mentioned for the deanship include Alberta Arthurs, dean of undergraduate affairs, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, L. Fred Jewett '57, Harvard-Radcliffe dean of admissions and financial aid, and darkhorse John B. Fox '59, assistant dean of the Faculty...
...took over as acting dean in the fall of 1969, a Business School economist who had specialized in applying analytical techniques to urban problems. Kilbridge was not President Nathan M. Pusey's first choice to fill the position permanently; originally only a baby sitter, Kilbridge ascended to the permanent deanship after Pusey had received a round of "no, thank you's" from several more attractive candidates...