Word: dean
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...dismayed that the many comments that I did make to the reporter last spring were not included in the article. He claims several times that most former administrators hold certain points of view but neglects to quote the opinions that I, as one of the longest serving administrators under Dean Nathans, shared with him last spring. This is, at best, sloppy journalism, but, more seriously, it comes across as an attempt on his part to give more weight in the article to points of view that seem to fit with the negative portrayal that he is presenting. He went...
...that although the reporter recently contacted other former employees, some for the second time, he neither contacted me again nor quoted any of my comments to him last spring. The article would have been much more balanced and accurate had he investigated more thoroughly the support and guidance that Dean Nathans has given to both students and employees over the years. For example, I told the reporter last spring that I had found Dean Nathans to be "extremely supportive" of her staff. I am well aware that not all of her former staff members share this point of view...
Many former FDO employees have in fact moved on to positions of increased responsibility at Harvard and elsewhere. This is a good thing and is in the natural course of events. As someone who worked under Dean Nathans for the last four years, I feel that this article evinces a taste for sensationalism at the expense of objectivity and fairness...
...writer is the Dean of Freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania...
Sterritt declined to be interviewed in person or by telephone, answering only by e-mail. Her responses were among the briefest that Conrad received from assistant deans. The story quoted the comments of others who defended or praised Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans, including former Assistant Dean Sarah B. Drummond, current Assistant Dean Philip A. Bean and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, as well as Nathans herself...