Word: deanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leonard began working together on the problems of the low minority and female representation at Harvard while Bok was still dean of the Law School. In 1969 Leonard left an assistant deanship at Howard University to begin his work in Cambridge. As Leonard describes it, there were very few blacks, women and Chicanos at the Law School when he came here just before the occupation of University Hall. By the time Leonard moved on to Mass Hall with Bok in 1971, the Law School was training 150 blacks, 175 women and 30 Chicanos. The dramatic increase must be credited...
Whether the whole affair will affect Kiely's career is impossible to say. He now plans to leave his deanship after next year, but he says he never intended to stay on more than three years anyway...
...announcement at the end of last month that Rosovsky will make his first major appointment--a new associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard and Radcliffe--signals an important step towards breaking down the centralization of the dean's office that grew under Dunlop. The new deanship is touted as having the clout to enforce decisions that formerly almost always went right to the dean himself...
Rosovsky's service as dean for this reason reflects an institutional loyalty to Harvard more than any personal ambition. The deanship is "not a culmination of my career," he says often. "I'm a believer in the John Quincy Adams principle," he adds, explaining his plans to return to teaching in the Economics Department after the five-to-seven year tenure he has set for himself. (John Quincy Adams, after his Presidential defeat by Andrew Jackson, served in the House of Representatives for many years thereafter...
Because much of Rosovsky's motivation in taking on the deanship stems from obligation rather than ambition, Rosovsky often comes across as ambivalent about his job. He jokes about it; but his comments like: "dean is a four-letter word," "deaning isn't fun," "being dean of the Law School would be a piece of cake"--after a while have a certain ring of truth...