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...says Rapier. “We have assured our community, however, that President Summers’s agenda was shaped by many individuals at the University and will move ahead largely intact under a new administration.” Pitching this agenda to alums will be the task of Rapier and her administration under the incoming leadership of Bok and recently-appointed Interim Faculty Dean Jeremy R. Knowles. Despite their reputations as prodigious fundraisers, the two men are not expected to focus on fundraising in the short time they are back at Harvard.INSTITUTIONAL MEMORYPeter J. Solomon...
...side by side. It’s been more than three decades since they started living in the same residential Houses. But now, the integration of men and women is reaching the final frontier: the dorm room.In March, the student-faculty Committee on House Life moved to create a task force that would establish College-wide guidelines facilitating mixed-sex rooming.The catalyst for this change is Eric I. Kouskalis ’07, the Undergraduate Council (UC) representative from Currier House who brought the co-ed rooming issue to the front and center of the council’s agenda.By...
...chart.For that role we turn to a small crew of 11 who will steer Harvard into the future—Interim President Derek C. Bok, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles, and the nine members of the Presidential Search Committee. Their task, above all, is to ensure that Harvard does not rest on its laurels—it cannot if it hopes to remain at the top of the heap; this remains as true today as it was when University President Lawrence H. Summers was selected five years ago.Bok and Knowles have...
...Hammonds will update the University on June 12 with a report detailing the efforts of her office.It will contain analyses of the composition of Harvard’s faculty, new childcare guidelines, and data from surveys of junior professors—all significant recommendations of the two faculty task forces created in the wake of Summers’ Jan. 2005 remarks on women in science, which produced pages of proposals to address the dearth of women and minorities in the sciences in two reports released last May.But some professors who have worked on the committees say the task of transforming...
After Kirby’s resignation in January 2006, the Council continued to increase its authority by gradually claiming jurisdiction over the appointment of Kirby’s successor—a task traditionally reserved for the president, who may choose to seek the Faculty’s advice...