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...does not neglect their input.What Harvard needs is a leader who can inspire each of the University’s factions to aspire to the same common goals and vision. In a world in which every professor, administrator, and student is his or her own king, leadership cannot be top-down but must instead stem from example and inspiration. That will require a less brusque and opaque management style than Summers brought to Mass. Hall. But it does not mean that Harvard’s next leader should stay away from rocking the ship or changing course.We have welcomed...
...column, Kavulla proposed a “well-articulated, top-down initiative,” but it now appears clear that a second strategy for ensuring that Professor Russell does not feel lonely is to work from the bottom up, trusting that our faculty will know what students want and empowering them to develop courses that will appeal to our “eager newcomers,” who will remain captivated, absorbed, and enthralled so long as we continue to open doors for them...
...assistant dean of freshmen from 1999 to 2002, suggested that it is the attitude of the administration, not of the students, that would make it difficult for a code to exist at Harvard.“Harvard’s managerial style has long been very ‘top-down,’ characterized by an extremely strong sense of hierarchy,” he wrote in an e-mail. “I’m not sure that’s compatible with an honor code or, more fundamentally, to creating one in the first place...
...pathways for peer collaboration have not just been coming from the administration. A number of student-generated initiatives also offer opportunities for students and student groups to learn from each other and grow in ways that a top-down approach from the administration might not have achieved...
...students minds but also their bodies and souls. There are still vestiges of this mentality left. The College has, for instance, decided that freshmen need more rules than upperclassmen, and that is why the freshman proctor is more an enforcer than an advisor. Randomization itself was a heavy-handed, top-down decision to alter upperclass housing that had nothing to do with education by books per se; it was a decision about which groups ranging from the UC to this newspaper’s editorial board bitterly complained, although it is now heralded as visionary. And Sex Signals...