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...spark donations. But to many donors who were excited by Summers’ agenda—a plan that includes a major expansion into Allston, a focus on undergraduate life and teaching, and an emphasis on research in the life sciences—the key question is whether his vision for the University will continue to influence its next leader. Given the widely-held belief that the agenda of the president has become the agenda of the University, an overwhelming majority of donors and alums contacted by The Crimson say they believe that fundraising will not be affected...
...stewards are amassing troves of potential names. And in a months-long search process bound to consume the campus, that long list will be whittled down to the single individual who will ultimately set up shop in Mass. Hall.The stakes are high. The completion of Summers’ unrealized vision for the University—the pursuit of reforms to the undergraduate experience and curriculum, a formidable expansion across the Charles River into Allston, and the prospect of a record-setting capital campaign—may ironically be left to his successor, who must chart the future direction...
...decision to intervene came reluctantly, according to two people who spoke with him in the days following Summers’ resignation. As the only member of the Corporation to serve on the committee that selected Summers for the presidency in 2001, he believed in Summers’ vision; now, however, his hope for reconciliation had slowly dissipated, according to several accounts. The situation had become too grave, and now he wanted the president to step down immediately, according to an individual close to the Corporation...
...Evolution David Pilbeam, and Professor of Sociology Mary C. Waters. The committee’s charge, Menand says, is “a little vague.”That is nothing new for the three-year-old review of general education, which has been criticized for a lack of vision at every step. “I think that people are beginning to realize that we’re so close to embarrassing ourselves,” says Peter K. Bol, the co-chair of the preliminary committee that first generated ideas for general education in 2004. Some professors...
During his five-year tenure, University President Lawrence H. Summers painted Allston’s future in broad brush strokes: a vision of green pastures and bustling city streets surrounding a hub devoted to interdisciplinary science research.Within the next 10 years—long after Summers is gone—a glass science complex will stand in what is now a parking lot and a new museum for contemporary and modern art will move into the offices of Bank of America.The School of Public Health and the School of Education—both of which have complained for years about...