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Francis M. Pipkin moved this month into a University Hall office that doesn't have a telephone yet; he says a phone should be installed as soon as he gets settled in. Pipkin, who Dean Rosovsky appointed in June as the first associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, is still very much the newcomer to U Hall, a haven for old administrative pros. He could come to wield enormous power--he is officially in charge of all undergraduate education--but for the moment he's still getting acquainted with the administrative ropes. "I spend most...
...these heavy problems have led to a change in the way University Hall operates: Rosovsky is now trying to delegate many of the administrative chores that go along with his deanship to his associate deans, Burton Dreben of the graduate school and Francis Pipkin of the College...
That kind of conception of what a Harvard dean should be is, in itself, overly narrow, but even more important, the appointment appears also to have been in clear violation of the affirmative action plan. Under its rules for administrative corporation appointees--which would seem to include Pipkin or any other Faculty dean--the plan states that "all administrative Corporation appointment vacancies be listed officially with the Personnel Office before a commitment is made to employ someone...
Imagine the whole process taking place at the affirmative-action Harvard--Francis Pipkin strolling down to the Personnel Office to see what's doing, noticing there's an opening for a new dean and deciding to send in his resume. Affirmative action represents an enormous change in the underlying assumptions upon which Harvard operates; it involves a shift from Harvard as a closed-off oasis for scholars to an open and socially-integrated community...
...change is, of course, necessary. Rosovsky's two most important appointees so far--Pipkin and Burton S. Dreben '49 as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences--were both in the Society of Fellows, an elite group of distinguished elder scholars and promising younger ones, with him in the mid-fifties. They are both scholars concerned about the University, and both are potentially good deans--but still, choosing deans from the pool of former junior fellows won't bring equal opportunity to Harvard, and while junior fellows make for a pool of potential deans of unusual convenience...