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Her name has been on people’s lips for weeks, and in recent days she has been the clear frontrunner in the search for Harvard’s 28th leader. Though leading the University will represent a significant leap from her deanship at Radcliffe, friends and colleagues say...
For Harris, the challenge is two-fold: maintain the offensive production that led Harvard to a 65-64 victory over Cornell last Saturday while also containing the Ivy League’s leading scorer.
The second challenge will come Saturday night, as Harris will try to staunch senior forward and returning All-Ivy League standout Mark Zoller’s attempts to carry his Quakers (10-8, 4-1 Ivy) to another NCAA tournament.
A university leader faces the additional challenges that accompany the not-for-profit, voluntary nature of a university. The central members of such an institution—the senior faculty—are tenured for life. In the long run, their job security insulates them from motivation by fear, fiat...
They were presidents of big universities and small colleges; leaders of British schools and American research institutions; sons and daughters of Harvard and people who never studied in Widener Library. And yet, these very different provosts, presidents, and prize-winners all had one thing in common: they did not want...