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...developed his own active tutorial approach to the deanship,” says Allan M. Brandt, chair of the history of science department...
...Lewis’ deanship, though, was anything but calm. Soon after taking office, he oversaw the consolidation of the Phillips Brooks House, angering many in Harvard’s social services community with his autocratic management style and draconian reforms. Lewis was the driving force behind the randomization of upper class housing, a move which has won plaudits from many, but which Lewis himself has said he suspects would be instantly overturned in a student referendum. Many of Lewis’ more minor reforms have also aroused the ire of the student body, most recently the ban on kegs...
Clark, who will also be given the new title, has served as HLS dean since 1989. During his deanship, he has been largely responsible for financially strengthening the school, completing a $183 million capital campaign in 1995—the biggest in HLS history, and, at the time, the largest campaign in the history of legal education. This has allowed for improvement of the school’s financial aid packages, renovation of HLS’ physical plant, and the appointment of 39 new tenure tenure-track positions—increasing total faculty size...
...opponent and reliable on-the-record source but also witnessed the beginning of a new regime in the College administration, one in which information is sparsely given and priorities will be markedly different. It is too soon to tell what repercussions will result from the restructuring of the College deanship to encompass both its old duties and the curricular obligations of the dean of undergraduate education. But there is enough reason to be concerned because, two months after Lewis’ abrupt removal, we still don’t know what the plan is for University Hall?...
Gross is very at home discussing academic matters, as a man who has spent most of his life learning and teaching. And though he is taking on new responsibilities, he says undergraduate education will remain a central focus of his deanship...