Word: summersã
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...recent selection and approval of Steven E. Hyman as the University’s new provost is a positive indication that President Lawrence H. Summers intends to deliver on the promises he made during his installation speech. Hyman represents an excellent choice to help Summers??€™ administration deliver an increased emphasis on the sciences, centered on an improved undergraduate science curriculum, as well as new interdisciplinary initiatives that span the university’s diverse schools, institutes and departments...
Since its modern establishment at the beginning of former University President Neil L. Rudenstine’s tenure a decade ago, the position of provost has remained somewhat amorphous, resulting in unnecessary disputes and inefficiency. We hope that Summers??€™ administration will establish a more concrete role for Hyman than was held by his three predecessors, and that he will use his position in order to work with Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles to facilitate tangible improvements to the undergraduate experience...
Hyman also stressed his commitment to undergraduate education at the College, echoing Summers??€™ inauguration statements about the importance of improving science education for all students—not just science concentrators...
...need a student center that stays open 24 hours a day, plays music, has pool tables, serves food and caters to coyly suggestive students. Though University President Lawrence H. Summers??€™ plan to focus on the sciences is an excellent idea, the issue of a student center needs to be addressed. Just think—not only would Summers??€™ student approval ratings rise, undergraduate action levels could skyrocket to astronomical highs...
...Both of Summers??€™ major administrative appointments—the other being Columbia University’s Alan Stone, soon to be Harvard’s Vice President of Government, Community and Public Affairs—have had significant service in Washington...