Word: deanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...running Phase III will be tougher. "The opportunity to help work on these problems cooperatively with labor, management and Government at this time is to be concerned with issues that no Western society has handled well," he wrote in his letter of resignation from his Harvard deanship. "But if over the next decade or two we are to have a little less inflation, a little lower level of unemployment, a little less industrial strife, then it is essential to develop the knowledge, the experience and the institutions to deal with this complex area...
Dunlop came into the deanship at the height of student unrest at Harvard. Ford had resigned after the occupation of University Hall in April 1969, suffering from a stroke. President Emeritus Nathan M. Pusey '28 looked to the Faculty's informal conservative caucus for a new dean, and Dunlop emerged as the perfect choice...
Privately over the past year, he has expressed his lack of interest in the deanship, a job he regarded almost as surreal when compared to his work in labor negotiation. Every Friday during his tenure as dean. Dunlop was in Washington arbitrating as head of the Stabilization Board, and he seemed to relish his weekly sojours as a respite from the pettiness of Faculty politics...
This same approach was evident in Bok's choice of Howard Hiatt last month to take Harvard's other open deanship at the School of Public Health. Hiatt comes into that job with no specific experience in public health: most of his research has been on cancer, and by his own admission. Hiatt will have to "devote the coming months to learning...
Phyllis Jones, former co-chairman of the raduate Women's Organization, commented on the new administrative appointment: "It's a tardy and less significant gesture than we had hoped for, when the four vice-presidencies, and just recently the deanship of the College have gone...