Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...provost advises the president in most searches, helps administer the University's central bureaucracy. Fineberg is known for his work on interfaculty initiatives, as well as on information technology...
Rudenstine says that because Harvard is less centralized than other universities, the provost necessarily has less responsibility--as does the rest of the central administration...
Neil Rudenstine's taller shadow, Fineberg is even-keeled and unflappable where his boss is disarmingly guileless. Fineberg is nothing if not deliberate. One colleague dubs this physician's demeanor "bedside manner." To most central administrators, his controlled manner is admirable...
...provost, he faces certain communication challenges. He works closely with Rudenstine and the central administration but must also have a good relationship with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)--which comprises 40 percent of the University. These two are historically at odds...
...earlier this spring, a FAS committee on resources directly called for more communication from the central administration about University finances, saying that the last time a report on the central administration's finances was released was during Carnesale's tenure as provost. According to Huidekoper, the decision to issue another such report is Fineberg's responsibility...