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...legal pad in an overflowing leather binder. Occasionally she checked her e-mail on a large, vintage BlackBerry with a green monochrome screen. The dean of Radcliffe, Drew Gilpin Faust, was a quiet observer at the sometimes-contentious Oct. 10 town hall meeting held by a University-wide science planning committee. At the meeting, a handful of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) professors pushed back against the committee’s proposal to centralize some science teaching and research across the University. Faust is an observer no more. As Harvard president, she will need to strike a balance between...
...affected by the increase in the freshman party fund, budgeting is always zero sum game. Freshman year is a difficult time, but 150 extra dollars in the Freshman Party Fund isn’t going to make it any easier. There are real ways to improve campus-wide social opportunities for freshman. A UC-funded Finale-fest in the Straus Common Room isn’t one of them...
...begin by saying thanks to all you who've traveled, from far and wide, to brave the cold today...
...Lawrence H. Summers.Faust, whose selection still needs to be confirmed by the Board of Overseers in a meeting on Sunday, has served as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2001, leading its transformation from a college for women into an institute for advanced study in a wide range of disciplines. At the institute, Faust oversees 81 staff members, fewer than 15 faculty members, and a budget of about $16 million. As president, she would oversee a budget of about $3 billion and almost 25,000 employees, fueling questions about how she will handle such a leap...
...stickiest situations facing the new president will be redefining her office’s role in relation to the faculty. Harvard’s radically decentralized structure overly empowers its faculties and inhibits reform, encouraging wide disparities in funding among schools, and promoting internecine squabbling over major initiatives. Managing this entrenched academic sphere was the puzzle that cost Summers...