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...initial reports about Rudenstine are cause for encouragement. He has said that he will work hard to gain student and faculty input into decisions and may even teach a first-year seminar as a way of keeping in touch with undergraduate education...
...what does anyone really know about Neil Rudenstine? Only the barest and driest facts are available to the general public. He had a long and distinguished career at Princeton. He plans to teach a seminar for first-year students and appoint a provost. He is said to be fond of opera...
...Rudenstine earned a reputation for being receptive to unconventional scholarship yet meticulous in upholding academic standards. Since his appointment, he has repeatedly emphasized the importance of attracting minorities into academia. He has announced his commitment to bolstering undergraduate education at Harvard (and said he hopes to teach a freshman seminar next spring). He has discussed the importance of University unity, the need for an overall educational mission, his aversion to absolute administrative decentralization. He plans to appoint a provost, a University-wide dean responsible for coordinating Harvard's atomized parts...
...couldn't have imagined a Harvard president who would teach a first-year seminar......But Neil Rudenstine appears to be the wave-maker we've been hoping...
Rudenstine continued to teach occasional English courses during his time as an administrator at Princeton. Since going to the Mellon Foundation, he has continued to lead a popular Shakespeare seminar for first-year Princeton students. He says that he plans to teach a freshman seminar at Harvard next spring...