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WHO THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC WANT AS HARVARD’S MOST POWERFUL {MAX-WIDTH:600PX;MARG:0PX TO;PADDG:0PX 20PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:1.1EM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5EM;LOR:#555;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}AS CLDE GAY PREPAR TO MOVE OM HER STATN UNIVERSY HALL TO THE PRINT’S OFFICE ACROSS HARVARD YARD, ONE OF HER MOST IMPORTANT TASKS WILL BE TO SELECT HER OWN SUCCSOR AS THE AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC. 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GARBER ’76 ARE LEADG THE SEARCH FOR GAY’S SUCCSOR, WHICH WAS FORMALLY LNCHED FEBARY, ALONGSI AN ADVISORY MTEE OF 12 PROFSORS OM ACROSS THE FAS, A HARVARD BS SCHOOL PROFSOR, AND HARVARD LAW SCHOOL DEAN JOHN F. MANNG ’82.IN PAST SEARCH, TOP NTENRS HAVE TEND TO POSSS SUBSTANTIAL ADMISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE AND A EP FAIARY WH THE STCTURE AND ERNANCE OF FAS.GAY HERSELF WAS THE AN OF SOCIAL SCIENC WHEN UNIVERSY PRINT LAWRENCE S. BAW OFFERED HER THE POSN. HER PRECSOR, MICHAEL D. SMH, WAS THE ASSOCIATE AN FOR PUTER SCIENCE AND ENGEERG PRR TO BEG FAS AN, AND HIS PRECSOR WILLIAM C. KIRBY HAD SERVED AS THE DIRECTOR OF HARVARD’S ASIA CENTER AND A FORMER HISTORY PARTMENT CHAIR.THE OTHER TOP NDIDAT FOR THE ROLE OF FAS AN SHARED THE CHARACTERISTICS. BEFORE FORMER UNIVERSY PRINT DREW G. FST TAPPED SMH FOR FAS AN, SHE REPORTEDLY OFFERED THE ROLE TO GEOPHYSICS PROFSOR JEREMY BLOXHAM, THE DIVISNAL AN FOR PHYSIL SCIENC AT THE TIME; HOWEVER, BLOXHAM REJECTED THE ROLE.IN THE SEARCH THAT ULTIMATELY APPOTED KIRBY 2002, FST HERSELF — THEN THE AN OF THE RADCLIFFE INSTUTE OF ADVANCED STUDY — WAS A NTENR, ALONG WH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENC DEAN PETER T. ELLISON.OF THE THREE CURRENT DIVISNAL ANS — DEAN OF SCIENCE CHRISTOPHER W. STUBBS, DEAN OF ARTS AND HUMANI ROB E. KELSEY, AND DEAN OF SOCIAL SCIENC LAWRENCE D. BOBO — STUBBS CLED TO MENT ON WHETHER HE WAS TERTED THE POSN AN TERVIEW THIS WEEK, WHILE BOBO SAID LAST WEEK HE WAS {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:640PX;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:1EM TO;} > DIV.SHORT-LEFT{FLOAT:LEFT;} > DIV.SHORT-RIGHT{FLOAT:RIGHT;} > DIV.SHORT-SMALL{MAX-WIDTH:200PX;} > DIV.SHORT-MEDIUM{MAX-WIDTH:400PX;} > DIV.SHORT-LARGE{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;} > DIV.SHORT-XLARGE{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;} > DIV.SHORT-FULLSCREEN{PADDG:0PX;}{WIDTH:100%;}{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;MARG:5PX 0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#777;FONT-SIZE:15PX;}HARVARD DEAN OF SOCIAL SCIENCE LAWRENCE D. BOBO, PICTURED DURG THE 2019 HUTCHS CENTER HONORS, SAID HE BELIEV THE NEXT FAS AN SHOULD E OM WH THE UNIVERSY. IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}COURTY OF MELISSA {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTBOBO ALSO STRSED THE IMPORTANCE OF FAIARY WH THE FAS, SAYG HE HOP “THEY LEAN TOWARD AN SIR” FOR THE POSN.DIANA SORENSEN, A FORMER AN OF ARTS AND HUMANI WHO SERVED ON THE ADVISORY MTEE DURG THE 2018 AN SEARCH THAT ULTIMATELY SELECTED GAY, SAID THE NDIDATE HAD TO HAVE ADMISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE.“IT HAS TO BE SOMEBODY WHO’S BEEN THE CHAIR OF A PARTMENT, THE DIRECTOR OF A CENTER, A DIVISNAL AN, YOU NAME , BUT SOMEBODY THAT HAS A SENSE OF WHAT TAK TO BE A STRONG LEAR, AS AN ADMISTRATOR AND AS A FACULTY MEMBER,” SORENSEN SAID. “THE TWO PIEC HAVE TO E TOGETHER.”WH THE SEARCH NOW MOTN, SEVERAL FAS PROFSORS SPOKE WH THE CRIMSON ABOUT THEIR HOP FOR THE SUCCSOR TO HARVARD’S MOST POWERFUL AN.UNG THE FACULTYFOR YEARS, HARVARD’S PRINTS AND FAS ANS HAVE BEEN NCENTRATED THE SOCIAL SCIENC.BAW, HARVARD’S CURRENT PRINT, HAS A BACKGROUND ENOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY, WHILE GAY IS A SCHOLAR OF POLIL SCIENCE AND AIN AMERIN STUDI. THOUGH GAY’S PRECSOR, SMH, IS A PUTER SCIENTIST, HE REPLACED KIRBY, WHO REARCH CHE HISTORY. SMH SERVED UNR FST, A HISTORIAN, WHILE KIRBY SERVED UNR LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS, AN ENOMIST.BUT MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY SAY THAT THE NEXT FAS AN DO NOT NECSARILY HAVE TO E OM A PARTICULAR AMIC BACKGROUND.“WHERE SOMEONE OM, I DON’T THK THAT THAT’S ALWAYS NECSARILY A GOOD DITOR OF WHERE THEY’RE GOG TO GO, WHAT THEY’RE THKG, AND WHO THEY ARE,” WOODWARD YANG, A PROFSOR OF ELECTRIL ENGEERG, SAID. “I THK THAT THAT’S KD OF A POOR METRIC.”OUTGOG FAS DEAN CLDE GAY HAS A BACKGROUND POLIL SCIENCE AND AIN AMERIN STUDI. HARVARD FACULTY MEMBERS SAID AMIC BACKGROUND IS NOT ALWAYS AN IMPORTANT MEASURE OF A NDIDATE FOR THE AN POSN. BY JULIAN J. GRDANOADVERTISEMENTMAYA R. JASANOFF ’96, A HISTORY PROFSOR, SAID THE NEXT AN’S AMIC BACKGROUND MATTERS LS THAN THEIR ABILY TO MUNITE WH FACULTY ACROSS A RANGE OF DISCIPL.“IN THKG ABOUT WHO WOULD BE AN EFFECTIVE NDIDATE, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CRERIA, MY VIEW, WOULD BE THAT WHOEVER BE PICKED BE SOMEBODY WHO IS ABLE TO UNRSTAND AND WORK WH PEOPLE ACROSS ALL THE DIVISNS THE FAS,” JASANOFF SAID.PHILOSOPHY PROFSOR EDWARD J. “NED” HALL ECHOED JASANOFF, SAYG THAT THE NEXT FAS AN SHOULD HAVE “BROAD UNRSTANDG OF THE RANGE OF REARCH THAT HARVARD SUPPORTS AND OUGHT TO BE SUPPORTG ACROSS DIFFERENT DIVISNS” ADDN TO A “PELLG VISN FOR WHAT A GOOD LIBERAL ARTS TN IS GOG TO BE.”“IT’S NOT ANY ONE AMIC DISCIPLE,” HALL SAID.VENKATH N. MURTHY, A MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BLOGY PROFSOR, SAID HE WOULD “LOVE TO SEE” A SCIENTIST FILL THE ANSHIP, ALTHOUGH HE NOTED A SCIENTIST AN IS UNLIKELY TO BE “SCIENCE ONLY, SCIENCE FIRST.”“I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MAYBE A B OF BALANCE, WHERE LET’S SAY THE FAS SHOULD PERHAPS BE MORE THE SCIENCE-LEANG SI OF THGS, BUT OF URSE SOMEBODY WHO’S VERY, VERY ACTIVE AND KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT SOCIAL STUDI AND POLICY AND THGS LIKE THAT,” MURTHY SAID.“NOT JT LIKE A NERD SCIENTIST,” HE ADD.WLEY M. JABSEN, A PROFSOR OF THE PRACTICE OF JAPANE LANGUAGE, ALSO LLED FOR “A BALANCE” BETWEEN THE SCIENC AND HUMANI, SAYG THAT SCIENTISTS NEED A HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE TO ADDRS “CREASGLY CRIL ISSU ABOUT HUMAN SURVIVAL, HUMAN EXISTENCE.”“WE NEED SCIENTISTS WHO N MUNITE, WE NEED SCIENTISTS WHO ARE NCERNED ABOUT SOCIAL ISSU, ABOUT HUMAN LIFE ON THIS PLA,” JABSEN SAID.ARTS AND HUMANI DEAN ROB KELSEY, PICTURED 2017, IS A PROFSOR THE PARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHECTURE. BY ELLIS J. YEOADVERTISEMENTHE SAID THAT WHILE “BREADTH OF VISN” IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN A AN’S SPECIFIC BACKGROUND, KELSEY, THE CURRENT ARTS AND HUMANI AN, WOULD “MAKE AN EXCELLENT FAS AN.”MURTHY SAID HE WOULD “PERSONALLY BE LIGHTED” IF STUBBS, THE CURRENT SCIENCE AN, WERE SELECTED AS GAY’S SUCCSOR. IN EMAILS, CHEMISTRY PROFSOR EMER E.J. COREY AND ASTRONOMY PROFSOR EMER ROBERT P. KIRSHNER ’70 ALSO SAID THEY FELT STUBBS WOULD BE A STRONG NDIDATE FOR THE ANSHIP.DEAN OF SCIENCE CHRISTOPHER W. STUBBS DID NOT MENT ON HIS TERT THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC DEAN POSN. BY MYEONGSEO KIMSETTG A SCIENTIFIC AGENDAWHATEVER THEIR BACKGROUND, THE G FAS AN WILL BE TASKED WH SHEPHERDG HARVARD’S AGGRSIVE SHIFT TOWARD THE SCIENC.IN RECENT YEARS, THE UNIVERSY HAS SIGNIFINTLY UPPED S VTMENTS SCIENTIFIC REARCH AND TN, CLUDG A $200 LN DONATN BY MELANIE SALATA AND JEAN E. SALATA TO TABLISH THE SALATA INSTUTE FOR CLIMATE AND STAABILY; A $500 LN VTMENT FUNDG THE KEMPNER INSTUTE FOR THE STUDY OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OM MARK ZUCKERBERG AND PRISCILLA CHAN ’07; AND THE OPENG OF THE $1 BILLN SCIENCE AND ENGEERG COMPLEX, WHICH HO THE SCHOOL OF ENGEERG AND APPLIED SCIENC, A DIVISN OF THE FAS.STILL, SOME PROFSORS SAID HARVARD SHOULD FURTHER ASSERT SELF AS A LEAR AMONG STUTNS OF HIGHER TN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.MURTHY, THE MCB PROFSOR, SAID HE FEELS THE CHANGE LEARSHIP IS AN OPPORTUNY FOR HARVARD TO STOP “PLAYG FENSE MO” AND STEAD BE “PROACTIVE” AND “SET THE AGENDA FOR THE WORLD.”EVERY FACULTY MEMBER HAS “THEIR OWN SLIGHTLY SELFISH TAKE ON THGS,” MURTHY SAID; HIS VIEW IS THAT HARVARD OUGHT TO “FLUENCE POLICYMAKERS” FIELDS SUCH AS PUBLIC HEALTH, BMEDICE, AND ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE, WHICH HE SAID THE SCHOOL HAS NOT PRRIZED RECENT YEARS.“SHOULD WE JT LET THIS GO TO THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH?” MURTHY SAID, REFERENCG PUBLIC HEALTH AND COVID-19 REARCH. “OR SHOULD FAS ENGAGE THIS?”ADVERTISEMENTCOMPARED TO OTHER UNIVERSI, MURTHY SAID HARVARD “N’T AFFORD” NOT TO LEAD STEM.“STANFORD IS ALWAYS THE NEWS, MIT IS THE NEWS ALL THE TIME,” MURTHY SAID. “WHAT ARE THEY KNOWN FOR? I WOULD ARGUE THEY’RE KNOWN MALY FOR SCIENCE AND TECH.”THE SCIENCE AND ENGEERG COMPLEX, WHICH ST $1 BILLN TO PLETE, HO HARVARD'S SCHOOL OF ENGEERG AND APPLIED SCIENC. BY JULIAN J. GRDANOIN ORR FOR HARVARD TO “STAY PETIVE AT ALL THE SCIENC,” MANSI SRIVASTAVA, AN ASSOCIATE PROFSOR OF ORGANISMIC AND EVOLUTNARY BLOGY, SAID THE UNIVERSY NEEDS TO ADDRS GRADUATE STUNT AND POSTDOCTORAL REARCHERS’ MANDS FOR CREASED SUPPORT AND PENSATN.“I THK IF HARVARD IS GOG TO BE REALISTIC ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENG THE SCIENC, THEY HAVE TO NTEND WH THE FACT THAT WE NNOT TAKE THE POSN THAT, ‘OH, WE’RE HARVARD, SO THE BT PEOPLE WILL E HERE REGARDLS OF WHAT THE SALARI ARE,’” SRIVASTAVA SAID.MATTHEW D. SHAIR, A CHEMISTRY PROFSOR, SAID AN FAS AN OM THE LIFE SCIENC WOULD BE WELL-POSNED TO LEAD THE SCHOOL’S ADVANCEMENT SCIENTIFIC REARCH.“ONE OF THE JEWELS OF OUR PARTMENT ARE THE LIFE SCIENC,” SHAIR SAID. “I’D LOVE TO SEE SOMEBODY THE FAS ANSHIP WH A EP UNRSTANDG OF WHAT TAK TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE THE LIFE SCIENC.”“I THK THAT’S CHALLENGG FOR SOMEONE WHO DON’T WORK THAT AREA,” HE ADD.SHAIR SAID HE HOPED THE NEXT AN WILL “FOSTER” OPPORTUNI FOR LLABORATN ACROSS DIFFERENT SCIENTIFIC PARTMENTS AND WH THE BTECHNOLOGY PRIVATE SECTOR BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE.“THAT WOULD BE VERY EXCG TO ME PERSONALLY AND, I SPECT, TO A NUMBER OF MY LLEAGU,” SHAIR SAID.ADVERTISEMENTSAFEGUARDG THE HUMANIWHILE SOME PROFSORS PH FOR A REVTMENT THE SCIENC, OTHER PROFSORS RAISED NCERNS ABOUT HARVARD’S PRRI SHIFTG AWAY OM THE HUMANI, REFLECTG A GROWG TREND HIGHER TN. THE NEXT FAS AN, THEY SAID, OUGHT TO REAFFIRM THE IMPORTANCE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS.PROFSOR DEREK J. PENSLAR, WHOSE REARCH FOC ON JEWISH HISTORY, SAID HE FEELS HARVARD SHOULD SEND A “STRONGER MSAGE G OM THE TOP” ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF A HUMANISTIC TN.“THE AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC IS RPONSIBLE FOR THE LIBERAL ARTS, BROADLY UNRSTOOD,” PENSLAR SAID. “AND THIS IS WHY I THK A STRONG MSAGE OM THE AN OF FAS REGARDG THE SENTIALY OF ALL OF THE SUBJECTS TGHT THE COLLEGE WOULD BE VERY IMPORTANT.”JABSEN, THE JAPANE LANGUAGE PROFSOR OF THE PRACTICE, SAID HE HOPED THE NEXT FAS AN WOULD BAT WHAT HE SAW AS “A TREND AGAST THE HUMANI” AT HARVARD.“THERE WAS KD OF A NCERN THAT HUMANI NCENTRATORS ARE GOG DOWN AND MAY NOT BE AS SER AT HARVARD AS AT OTHER PLAC,” JABSEN SAID. “MY NCERN WOULD BE THAT HUMANI ARE HELD UP AS A CENTRALLY IMPORTANT PART OF THE HARVARD UNRGRADUATE TN.”ACRDG TO HALL, A MORE ROBT LIBERAL ARTS TN AT HARVARD WOULD REQUIRE THE UNIVERSY TO TAKE A STRONGER STANCE ON PROMOTG AMIC EEDOM.“I’VE TALKED TO A LOT OF STUNTS WHO E HERE THKG LIKE ‘I WANT THE LIBERAL ARTS EXPERIENCE!’ AND THEY THK, ‘OH, AND I DON’T REALLY GET BEE EVERYBODY’S UT ABOUT WHAT THEY TALK ABOUT,’” HE SAID.STEVEN A. PKER, A PSYCHOLOGY PROFSOR WHO HAS BEEN OUTSPOKEN THE MOVEMENT FOR CREASED AMIC EEDOM, URGED GAY AND GARBER TO SELECT AN FAS AN “WH A STEADFAST MMENT TO DISTERTED QUIRY, CIVILY, OBJECTIVY, REASON, SCHOLARSHIP, AND EEDOM OF SPEECH AND THOUGHT” A FEB. 17 LETTER OBTAED BY THE CRIMSON.STEVEN A. PKER, A PROFSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AT HARVARD, LECTUR UNRGRADUAT MEMORIAL HALL. BY COURTY OF STEVEN A. PKERADVERTISEMENT“THE DEAN MT NOT ONLY BELIEVE THE VALU BUT BE WILLG TO E HARVARD’S PULP TO SPEAK OUT FOR THEM, AND TO ENSURE THAT THEY PREDOMATE WH HARVARD’S FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC,” PKER WROTE.IN AN TERVIEW, PKER ALSO SAID THE NEXT FAS DEAN SHOULD DISPLAY “A MMENT TO AMIC EEDOM, AND A MMENT TO SECURG THE CREDIBILY OF THE AMY AND THE PROFSORIATE.”PENSLAR SAID THAT RATHER THAN TRYG TO PETE WH OTHER STUTNS SUCH AS MIT THE SCIENC AND APPLIED SCIENC — A STLY ENAVOR, HE ADD — HARVARD SHOULD NSIR PURSUG MORE PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN THE TWO SCHOOLS.“IT SEEMS TO ME THAT HARVARD AND MIT TOGETHER ULD MAKE UP THE FT TNAL NSORTIUM THE WORLD,” PENSLAR ADD. “BUT OM AN OUTSIR’S PERSPECTIVE, OM MY PERSPECTIVE HISTORY, DO SEEM ODD FOR HARVARD TO BE APPARENTLY DUPLITG WHAT HAS DONE SO WELL AT MIT.”FAS SPOKPERSON RACHAEL DANE CLED TO MENT FOR THIS ARTICLE.HALL, THE PHILOSOPHY PROFSOR, SAID “THE CLE OF THE HUMANI ACROSS LLEG AND UNIVERSI THE UNED STAT IS A PRETTY SER MATTER.”“HAVG A NEW FAS AN WHO SAW THAT AS A SER PROBLEM, AND MAYBE ONE THAT DIDN’T JT REQUIRE THROWG ROURC AT THE HUMANI, BUT MAND OF THE HUMANI THAT WE THK HARD ABOUT WHAT OUR MISSN IS AND HOW TO MAKE THAT MISSN LEGIBLE TO YOUNG PEOPLE, SOMEONE WH THOSE SORT OF PRRI WOULD BE GREAT,” HALL SAID.FACULTY VOIC THE SEARCHAT THE MONTHLY FAS MEETG FEBARY, GAY TOLD FACULTY ATTEN THAT SHE AND GARBER WOULD READ EVERY EMAIL SENT TO A DITED AN SEARCH EMAIL ADDRS.“I REALLY N’T OVERSTATE THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR PUT THIS PROCS,” SHE TOLD FACULTY AT A SUBSEQUENT MEETG MARCH.ADVERTISEMENTSHAIR SAID THAT FACULTY “SHOULD BE VERY VOLVED” THE SEARCH.“I THK WOULD BE GREAT IF THE MTEE OR MEMBERS OF THE SEARCH MTEE VISED EACH FAS PARTMENT FOR 45 MUT OR AN HOUR AND HEARD AT A FACULTY MEETG WHAT’S ON THEIR MDS,” SHAIR SAID.UNIVERSY HALL, LOTED HARVARD YARD, HO ADMISTRATIVE OFFIC FOR THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC. BY RYAN N. GAJARAWALASRIVASTAVA, THE OEB PROFSOR, SAID SHE FELT THAT THE PROCS WAS OPEN TO HER FEEDBACK, ADDG WAS NSISTENT WH HER PERCEPTN OF GAY AS AN “AMAZG LISTENER.”“I THK THEY’RE TALKG TO LOTS OF PEOPLE,” SHE SAID.SHE ADD THAT SHE ATTEND ONE OF A HANDFUL OF “SMALL GROUP DISCSNS” FOR TENURE-TRACK FACULTY TO SHARE THEIR PERSPECTIV AND KNEW OF ANOTHER DISCSN FOR NON-TENURE-TRACK FACULTY.THE STCTURE OF THIS SEARCH MIRRORS THAT OF 2018, WH THE G PRINT AND PROVOST AT THE HELM AND A FACULTY MTEE AN ADVISORY PACY. SORENSEN, WHO SERVED ON THE ADVISORY MTEE 2018, SAID THAT THE NOMATN PROCS WAS “VERY OPEN,” AND THAT THE MTEE NARROWED DOWN AN “EXPANSIVE” LIST OF NOME TO A SHORTLIST.BUT, SHE NFIRMED, THE FAL CISN ME DOWN TO BAW AND GARBER.“AS WE ALWAYS KNEW WOULD BE THE SE,” SHE ADD.—STAFF WRER RAHEM D. HAMID N BE REACHED AT .ADVERTISEMENT—STAFF WRER ELIAS J. SCHISGALL N BE REACHED AT . 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CLAYBGH — WILL HELP PREPARE THE FAS FOR THE POSSIBILY OF HYBRID LEARNG THE FALL, WHICH WOULD CLU -PERSON AND ONLE PONENTS FOR LARGER URS.FAS WILL NTUE TO SEEK ADVICE OM THE DIVISN OF CONTUG EDUTN, WHOSE EXTENSN SCHOOL HAS LIVERED URS VIA ZOOM FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS, SHE ADD.“IT HELPED THAT THE FAS IS HOME TO THE DIVISN OF CONTUG EDUTN, AND BEE OF THAT, WE HAD SOME ALREADY -HOE EXPERTISE LEARNG EFFECTIVELY ONLE AND WERE ABLE TO DRAW ON THAT TO HELP WH OUR PIVOT LAST MARCH,” GAY SAID. “WE’RE AGA DRAWG ON THOSE -HOE EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE AS WE UNRTAKE THE PILOTS THIS SPRG HYBRID LEARNG.”IN SPRG 2021, UNRGRADUATE ENROLLMENT DIPPED NEARLY 20 PERCENT OM THE PREV YEAR AS SOME STUNTS CHOSE TO FER THEIR STUDI. THEIR POTENTIAL RETURN — OR LAYED ARRIVAL, THE SE OF HMEN — THE FALL LEAV OPEN THE POSSIBILY THAT AN UALLY HIGH NUMBER OF STUNTS WILL OPT TO LIVE ON MP, GAY ACKNOWLEDGED.“CERTALY, AS WE NTEMPLATE THE FALL, WE ARE THKG HARD ABOUT WHAT ENROLLMENT MIGHT BE LIKE, AND WHAT MEANS TO NTUE TO PURSUE RINTIAL LIBERAL ARTS TN A NTEXT WHERE WE MAY HAVE A LARGER NUMBER OF STUNTS ENROLLED,” GAY {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTHARVARD PREVLY STATED THAT NNOT GUARANTEE HOG DURG THE 2021-2022 AMIC YEAR TO STUNTS WHO TOOK TIME OFF THIS PAST YEAR.AS HARVARD APPROACH THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF S SHIFT TO REMOTE OPERATNS DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANMIC, GAY SAID SHE WAS “ENORMOLY PROUD” OF THE “CREDIBLE RILIENCE” OF HARVARD AFFILIAT, CG STAFF, FACULTY, AND STUNTS’ FLEXIBILY TO ADAPT TO REMOTE LEARNG AND TEACHG.“EVEN THROUGH [THE PANMIC], WE’VE ACTUALLY MANAGED TO ALSO HAVE SOME POSIVE EXPERIENC,” GAY SAID. “OUR FACULTY HAVE BROUGHT CREATIVE AND NOVATIVE APPROACH TO REMOTE TEACHG.”“OUR STUNTS HAVE EMBRACED THE OPPORTUNI OF REMOTE LEARNG AND HAVE WORKED CREDIBLY HARD TO MAKE THE MOST OF WHAT HAS BEEN A CHALLENGG, CHALLENGG YEAR, AND CERTALY NOT WHAT THEY IMAGED LLEGE TO BE,” SHE ADD.GAY SAID HER “GREATT DISAPPOTMENT” PLANNG FOR THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR WAS NOT PROVIDG SOPHOMOR AT THE COLLEGE THE OPPORTUNY TO RETURN TO HARVARD’S MP.“IF THERE IS A SGLE GREAT KD OF REGRET, WOULD BE THAT SOPHOMOR HAVE HAD TO STAY OFF MP FOR THIS LONG,” SHE SAID.—STAFF WRER MEERA S. 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HARVARD NAM CLDE GAY 30TH PRINT

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Clde Gay, a wily admired higher tn lear and distguished scholar of mocracy and polil participatn, will bee the 30th print of Harvard Universy on July 1. Sce 2018, Gay has served as the Edgerley Fay Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc (FAS), the Universy’s largt and most amilly diverse faculty, spanng the blogil and physil scienc and engeerg, the social scienc, and the humani and arts.

The dghter of Haian immigrants, Gay received her bachelor’s gree 1992 om Stanford, where she majored enomics and was award the Anna Lra Myers Prize for bt unrgraduate this.

CLDE GAY: 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT HARVARD’S FIRST BLACK PRINT

A quantative social scientist wh expertise polil behavr, Gay served as an assistant profsor and then tenured associate profsor at Stanford before beg reced to Harvard 2006 as a profsor of ernment. Speakg after her electn, Gay said, “I am humbled by the nfince that the erng boards have placed me and by the prospect of succeedg Print Baw leadg this remarkable stutn. “Today, we are a moment of remarkable and acceleratg change — socially, polilly, enomilly, and technologilly, ” said Gay.

Gay was elected to the princy today by the Harvard Corporatn, the Universy’s prcipal erng board, wh the nsent of the Universy’s Board of Overseers.

Known for her broad tellectual cursy and terdisciplary outlook, Gay is regnized as a highly fluential expert on Amerin polil participatn. A member of the Amerin Amy of Arts and Scienc, Gay has pursued her scholarship as a fellow at the Public Policy Instute of California, the Center for Advanced Study the Behavral Scienc, and the Radcliffe Instute for Advanced Study at Harvard. “Clde Gay b one person many of the attribut that will be required of Harvard’s new print, ” said Shirley Tilghman, who served as print of Prceton Universy om 2001 to 2013, is profsor emera of molecular blogy and public affairs at Prceton, and serv on the Harvard Corporatn.

CLDE GAY

Reactg to Gay’s appotment, Ruth Simmons, print of Prairie View A&M Universy and print emera of Brown Universy, said, “In selectg Clde Gay as the next print, Harvard’s erng boards have monstrated a mment to ensurg that Harvard remas not only the preement universy the world but also the universy that leads wh creasg relevance to the world today. As an of FAS, Gay has advanced an amb agenda of amic prri, wh a foc on brgg rourc om across discipl to bear on issu of public nsequence.

Announcg the search, Gay noted that “fightg the climate crisis requir engagement by the full breadth of amic discipl. In addn, Gay has been engaged a range of amic and programmatic iativ, cludg as a leadg voice wh both the Amic Council and the Provost’s Council, the two prcipal Universy-wi foms for chartg stutnal prri and plans.

Gay also has a ep mment to amic eedom, llg “the touchstone for everythg we are tryg to achieve, ” and has been a strong advote for clive excellence throughout her reer, cludg durg her anship. “I uldn’t be more pleased by the selectn of Clde Gay as the next Harvard print, ” said Hopi Hoekstra, Alexanr Agassiz Profsor of Zoology at Harvard Universy. Seekg to enable a strong, creative, and tellectually vibrant FAS for the long term, Gay iated a faculty-led, multiyear strategic planng effort the fall of 2021.

WHO THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC WANT AS HARVARD’S MOST POWERFUL {MAX-WIDTH:600PX;MARG:0PX TO;PADDG:0PX 20PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:1.1EM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5EM;LOR:#555;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}AS CLDE GAY PREPAR TO MOVE OM HER STATN UNIVERSY HALL TO THE PRINT’S OFFICE ACROSS HARVARD YARD, ONE OF HER MOST IMPORTANT TASKS WILL BE TO SELECT HER OWN SUCCSOR AS THE AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC. 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GARBER ’76 ARE LEADG THE SEARCH FOR GAY’S SUCCSOR, WHICH WAS FORMALLY LNCHED FEBARY, ALONGSI AN ADVISORY MTEE OF 12 PROFSORS OM ACROSS THE FAS, A HARVARD BS SCHOOL PROFSOR, AND HARVARD LAW SCHOOL DEAN JOHN F. MANNG ’82.IN PAST SEARCH, TOP NTENRS HAVE TEND TO POSSS SUBSTANTIAL ADMISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE AND A EP FAIARY WH THE STCTURE AND ERNANCE OF FAS.GAY HERSELF WAS THE AN OF SOCIAL SCIENC WHEN UNIVERSY PRINT LAWRENCE S. BAW OFFERED HER THE POSN. HER PRECSOR, MICHAEL D. SMH, WAS THE ASSOCIATE AN FOR PUTER SCIENCE AND ENGEERG PRR TO BEG FAS AN, AND HIS PRECSOR WILLIAM C. KIRBY HAD SERVED AS THE DIRECTOR OF HARVARD’S ASIA CENTER AND A FORMER HISTORY PARTMENT CHAIR.THE OTHER TOP NDIDAT FOR THE ROLE OF FAS AN SHARED THE CHARACTERISTICS. BEFORE FORMER UNIVERSY PRINT DREW G. FST TAPPED SMH FOR FAS AN, SHE REPORTEDLY OFFERED THE ROLE TO GEOPHYSICS PROFSOR JEREMY BLOXHAM, THE DIVISNAL AN FOR PHYSIL SCIENC AT THE TIME; HOWEVER, BLOXHAM REJECTED THE ROLE.IN THE SEARCH THAT ULTIMATELY APPOTED KIRBY 2002, FST HERSELF — THEN THE AN OF THE RADCLIFFE INSTUTE OF ADVANCED STUDY — WAS A NTENR, ALONG WH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENC DEAN PETER T. ELLISON.OF THE THREE CURRENT DIVISNAL ANS — DEAN OF SCIENCE CHRISTOPHER W. STUBBS, DEAN OF ARTS AND HUMANI ROB E. KELSEY, AND DEAN OF SOCIAL SCIENC LAWRENCE D. BOBO — STUBBS CLED TO MENT ON WHETHER HE WAS TERTED THE POSN AN TERVIEW THIS WEEK, WHILE BOBO SAID LAST WEEK HE WAS {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:640PX;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:1EM TO;} > DIV.SHORT-LEFT{FLOAT:LEFT;} > DIV.SHORT-RIGHT{FLOAT:RIGHT;} > DIV.SHORT-SMALL{MAX-WIDTH:200PX;} > DIV.SHORT-MEDIUM{MAX-WIDTH:400PX;} > DIV.SHORT-LARGE{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;} > DIV.SHORT-XLARGE{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;} > DIV.SHORT-FULLSCREEN{PADDG:0PX;}{WIDTH:100%;}{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;MARG:5PX 0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#777;FONT-SIZE:15PX;}HARVARD DEAN OF SOCIAL SCIENCE LAWRENCE D. BOBO, PICTURED DURG THE 2019 HUTCHS CENTER HONORS, SAID HE BELIEV THE NEXT FAS AN SHOULD E OM WH THE UNIVERSY. IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}COURTY OF MELISSA {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTBOBO ALSO STRSED THE IMPORTANCE OF FAIARY WH THE FAS, SAYG HE HOP “THEY LEAN TOWARD AN SIR” FOR THE POSN.DIANA SORENSEN, A FORMER AN OF ARTS AND HUMANI WHO SERVED ON THE ADVISORY MTEE DURG THE 2018 AN SEARCH THAT ULTIMATELY SELECTED GAY, SAID THE NDIDATE HAD TO HAVE ADMISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE.“IT HAS TO BE SOMEBODY WHO’S BEEN THE CHAIR OF A PARTMENT, THE DIRECTOR OF A CENTER, A DIVISNAL AN, YOU NAME , BUT SOMEBODY THAT HAS A SENSE OF WHAT TAK TO BE A STRONG LEAR, AS AN ADMISTRATOR AND AS A FACULTY MEMBER,” SORENSEN SAID. “THE TWO PIEC HAVE TO E TOGETHER.”WH THE SEARCH NOW MOTN, SEVERAL FAS PROFSORS SPOKE WH THE CRIMSON ABOUT THEIR HOP FOR THE SUCCSOR TO HARVARD’S MOST POWERFUL AN.UNG THE FACULTYFOR YEARS, HARVARD’S PRINTS AND FAS ANS HAVE BEEN NCENTRATED THE SOCIAL SCIENC.BAW, HARVARD’S CURRENT PRINT, HAS A BACKGROUND ENOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY, WHILE GAY IS A SCHOLAR OF POLIL SCIENCE AND AIN AMERIN STUDI. THOUGH GAY’S PRECSOR, SMH, IS A PUTER SCIENTIST, HE REPLACED KIRBY, WHO REARCH CHE HISTORY. SMH SERVED UNR FST, A HISTORIAN, WHILE KIRBY SERVED UNR LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS, AN ENOMIST.BUT MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY SAY THAT THE NEXT FAS AN DO NOT NECSARILY HAVE TO E OM A PARTICULAR AMIC BACKGROUND.“WHERE SOMEONE OM, I DON’T THK THAT THAT’S ALWAYS NECSARILY A GOOD DITOR OF WHERE THEY’RE GOG TO GO, WHAT THEY’RE THKG, AND WHO THEY ARE,” WOODWARD YANG, A PROFSOR OF ELECTRIL ENGEERG, SAID. “I THK THAT THAT’S KD OF A POOR METRIC.”OUTGOG FAS DEAN CLDE GAY HAS A BACKGROUND POLIL SCIENCE AND AIN AMERIN STUDI. HARVARD FACULTY MEMBERS SAID AMIC BACKGROUND IS NOT ALWAYS AN IMPORTANT MEASURE OF A NDIDATE FOR THE AN POSN. BY JULIAN J. GRDANOADVERTISEMENTMAYA R. JASANOFF ’96, A HISTORY PROFSOR, SAID THE NEXT AN’S AMIC BACKGROUND MATTERS LS THAN THEIR ABILY TO MUNITE WH FACULTY ACROSS A RANGE OF DISCIPL.“IN THKG ABOUT WHO WOULD BE AN EFFECTIVE NDIDATE, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CRERIA, MY VIEW, WOULD BE THAT WHOEVER BE PICKED BE SOMEBODY WHO IS ABLE TO UNRSTAND AND WORK WH PEOPLE ACROSS ALL THE DIVISNS THE FAS,” JASANOFF SAID.PHILOSOPHY PROFSOR EDWARD J. “NED” HALL ECHOED JASANOFF, SAYG THAT THE NEXT FAS AN SHOULD HAVE “BROAD UNRSTANDG OF THE RANGE OF REARCH THAT HARVARD SUPPORTS AND OUGHT TO BE SUPPORTG ACROSS DIFFERENT DIVISNS” ADDN TO A “PELLG VISN FOR WHAT A GOOD LIBERAL ARTS TN IS GOG TO BE.”“IT’S NOT ANY ONE AMIC DISCIPLE,” HALL SAID.VENKATH N. MURTHY, A MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BLOGY PROFSOR, SAID HE WOULD “LOVE TO SEE” A SCIENTIST FILL THE ANSHIP, ALTHOUGH HE NOTED A SCIENTIST AN IS UNLIKELY TO BE “SCIENCE ONLY, SCIENCE FIRST.”“I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MAYBE A B OF BALANCE, WHERE LET’S SAY THE FAS SHOULD PERHAPS BE MORE THE SCIENCE-LEANG SI OF THGS, BUT OF URSE SOMEBODY WHO’S VERY, VERY ACTIVE AND KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT SOCIAL STUDI AND POLICY AND THGS LIKE THAT,” MURTHY SAID.“NOT JT LIKE A NERD SCIENTIST,” HE ADD.WLEY M. JABSEN, A PROFSOR OF THE PRACTICE OF JAPANE LANGUAGE, ALSO LLED FOR “A BALANCE” BETWEEN THE SCIENC AND HUMANI, SAYG THAT SCIENTISTS NEED A HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE TO ADDRS “CREASGLY CRIL ISSU ABOUT HUMAN SURVIVAL, HUMAN EXISTENCE.”“WE NEED SCIENTISTS WHO N MUNITE, WE NEED SCIENTISTS WHO ARE NCERNED ABOUT SOCIAL ISSU, ABOUT HUMAN LIFE ON THIS PLA,” JABSEN SAID.ARTS AND HUMANI DEAN ROB KELSEY, PICTURED 2017, IS A PROFSOR THE PARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHECTURE. BY ELLIS J. YEOADVERTISEMENTHE SAID THAT WHILE “BREADTH OF VISN” IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN A AN’S SPECIFIC BACKGROUND, KELSEY, THE CURRENT ARTS AND HUMANI AN, WOULD “MAKE AN EXCELLENT FAS AN.”MURTHY SAID HE WOULD “PERSONALLY BE LIGHTED” IF STUBBS, THE CURRENT SCIENCE AN, WERE SELECTED AS GAY’S SUCCSOR. IN EMAILS, CHEMISTRY PROFSOR EMER E.J. COREY AND ASTRONOMY PROFSOR EMER ROBERT P. KIRSHNER ’70 ALSO SAID THEY FELT STUBBS WOULD BE A STRONG NDIDATE FOR THE ANSHIP.DEAN OF SCIENCE CHRISTOPHER W. STUBBS DID NOT MENT ON HIS TERT THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC DEAN POSN. BY MYEONGSEO KIMSETTG A SCIENTIFIC AGENDAWHATEVER THEIR BACKGROUND, THE G FAS AN WILL BE TASKED WH SHEPHERDG HARVARD’S AGGRSIVE SHIFT TOWARD THE SCIENC.IN RECENT YEARS, THE UNIVERSY HAS SIGNIFINTLY UPPED S VTMENTS SCIENTIFIC REARCH AND TN, CLUDG A $200 LN DONATN BY MELANIE SALATA AND JEAN E. SALATA TO TABLISH THE SALATA INSTUTE FOR CLIMATE AND STAABILY; A $500 LN VTMENT FUNDG THE KEMPNER INSTUTE FOR THE STUDY OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OM MARK ZUCKERBERG AND PRISCILLA CHAN ’07; AND THE OPENG OF THE $1 BILLN SCIENCE AND ENGEERG COMPLEX, WHICH HO THE SCHOOL OF ENGEERG AND APPLIED SCIENC, A DIVISN OF THE FAS.STILL, SOME PROFSORS SAID HARVARD SHOULD FURTHER ASSERT SELF AS A LEAR AMONG STUTNS OF HIGHER TN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.MURTHY, THE MCB PROFSOR, SAID HE FEELS THE CHANGE LEARSHIP IS AN OPPORTUNY FOR HARVARD TO STOP “PLAYG FENSE MO” AND STEAD BE “PROACTIVE” AND “SET THE AGENDA FOR THE WORLD.”EVERY FACULTY MEMBER HAS “THEIR OWN SLIGHTLY SELFISH TAKE ON THGS,” MURTHY SAID; HIS VIEW IS THAT HARVARD OUGHT TO “FLUENCE POLICYMAKERS” FIELDS SUCH AS PUBLIC HEALTH, BMEDICE, AND ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE, WHICH HE SAID THE SCHOOL HAS NOT PRRIZED RECENT YEARS.“SHOULD WE JT LET THIS GO TO THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH?” MURTHY SAID, REFERENCG PUBLIC HEALTH AND COVID-19 REARCH. “OR SHOULD FAS ENGAGE THIS?”ADVERTISEMENTCOMPARED TO OTHER UNIVERSI, MURTHY SAID HARVARD “N’T AFFORD” NOT TO LEAD STEM.“STANFORD IS ALWAYS THE NEWS, MIT IS THE NEWS ALL THE TIME,” MURTHY SAID. “WHAT ARE THEY KNOWN FOR? I WOULD ARGUE THEY’RE KNOWN MALY FOR SCIENCE AND TECH.”THE SCIENCE AND ENGEERG COMPLEX, WHICH ST $1 BILLN TO PLETE, HO HARVARD'S SCHOOL OF ENGEERG AND APPLIED SCIENC. BY JULIAN J. GRDANOIN ORR FOR HARVARD TO “STAY PETIVE AT ALL THE SCIENC,” MANSI SRIVASTAVA, AN ASSOCIATE PROFSOR OF ORGANISMIC AND EVOLUTNARY BLOGY, SAID THE UNIVERSY NEEDS TO ADDRS GRADUATE STUNT AND POSTDOCTORAL REARCHERS’ MANDS FOR CREASED SUPPORT AND PENSATN.“I THK IF HARVARD IS GOG TO BE REALISTIC ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENG THE SCIENC, THEY HAVE TO NTEND WH THE FACT THAT WE NNOT TAKE THE POSN THAT, ‘OH, WE’RE HARVARD, SO THE BT PEOPLE WILL E HERE REGARDLS OF WHAT THE SALARI ARE,’” SRIVASTAVA SAID.MATTHEW D. SHAIR, A CHEMISTRY PROFSOR, SAID AN FAS AN OM THE LIFE SCIENC WOULD BE WELL-POSNED TO LEAD THE SCHOOL’S ADVANCEMENT SCIENTIFIC REARCH.“ONE OF THE JEWELS OF OUR PARTMENT ARE THE LIFE SCIENC,” SHAIR SAID. “I’D LOVE TO SEE SOMEBODY THE FAS ANSHIP WH A EP UNRSTANDG OF WHAT TAK TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE THE LIFE SCIENC.”“I THK THAT’S CHALLENGG FOR SOMEONE WHO DON’T WORK THAT AREA,” HE ADD.SHAIR SAID HE HOPED THE NEXT AN WILL “FOSTER” OPPORTUNI FOR LLABORATN ACROSS DIFFERENT SCIENTIFIC PARTMENTS AND WH THE BTECHNOLOGY PRIVATE SECTOR BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE.“THAT WOULD BE VERY EXCG TO ME PERSONALLY AND, I SPECT, TO A NUMBER OF MY LLEAGU,” SHAIR SAID.ADVERTISEMENTSAFEGUARDG THE HUMANIWHILE SOME PROFSORS PH FOR A REVTMENT THE SCIENC, OTHER PROFSORS RAISED NCERNS ABOUT HARVARD’S PRRI SHIFTG AWAY OM THE HUMANI, REFLECTG A GROWG TREND HIGHER TN. THE NEXT FAS AN, THEY SAID, OUGHT TO REAFFIRM THE IMPORTANCE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS.PROFSOR DEREK J. PENSLAR, WHOSE REARCH FOC ON JEWISH HISTORY, SAID HE FEELS HARVARD SHOULD SEND A “STRONGER MSAGE G OM THE TOP” ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF A HUMANISTIC TN.“THE AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC IS RPONSIBLE FOR THE LIBERAL ARTS, BROADLY UNRSTOOD,” PENSLAR SAID. “AND THIS IS WHY I THK A STRONG MSAGE OM THE AN OF FAS REGARDG THE SENTIALY OF ALL OF THE SUBJECTS TGHT THE COLLEGE WOULD BE VERY IMPORTANT.”JABSEN, THE JAPANE LANGUAGE PROFSOR OF THE PRACTICE, SAID HE HOPED THE NEXT FAS AN WOULD BAT WHAT HE SAW AS “A TREND AGAST THE HUMANI” AT HARVARD.“THERE WAS KD OF A NCERN THAT HUMANI NCENTRATORS ARE GOG DOWN AND MAY NOT BE AS SER AT HARVARD AS AT OTHER PLAC,” JABSEN SAID. “MY NCERN WOULD BE THAT HUMANI ARE HELD UP AS A CENTRALLY IMPORTANT PART OF THE HARVARD UNRGRADUATE TN.”ACRDG TO HALL, A MORE ROBT LIBERAL ARTS TN AT HARVARD WOULD REQUIRE THE UNIVERSY TO TAKE A STRONGER STANCE ON PROMOTG AMIC EEDOM.“I’VE TALKED TO A LOT OF STUNTS WHO E HERE THKG LIKE ‘I WANT THE LIBERAL ARTS EXPERIENCE!’ AND THEY THK, ‘OH, AND I DON’T REALLY GET BEE EVERYBODY’S UT ABOUT WHAT THEY TALK ABOUT,’” HE SAID.STEVEN A. PKER, A PSYCHOLOGY PROFSOR WHO HAS BEEN OUTSPOKEN THE MOVEMENT FOR CREASED AMIC EEDOM, URGED GAY AND GARBER TO SELECT AN FAS AN “WH A STEADFAST MMENT TO DISTERTED QUIRY, CIVILY, OBJECTIVY, REASON, SCHOLARSHIP, AND EEDOM OF SPEECH AND THOUGHT” A FEB. 17 LETTER OBTAED BY THE CRIMSON.STEVEN A. PKER, A PROFSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AT HARVARD, LECTUR UNRGRADUAT MEMORIAL HALL. BY COURTY OF STEVEN A. PKERADVERTISEMENT“THE DEAN MT NOT ONLY BELIEVE THE VALU BUT BE WILLG TO E HARVARD’S PULP TO SPEAK OUT FOR THEM, AND TO ENSURE THAT THEY PREDOMATE WH HARVARD’S FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC,” PKER WROTE.IN AN TERVIEW, PKER ALSO SAID THE NEXT FAS DEAN SHOULD DISPLAY “A MMENT TO AMIC EEDOM, AND A MMENT TO SECURG THE CREDIBILY OF THE AMY AND THE PROFSORIATE.”PENSLAR SAID THAT RATHER THAN TRYG TO PETE WH OTHER STUTNS SUCH AS MIT THE SCIENC AND APPLIED SCIENC — A STLY ENAVOR, HE ADD — HARVARD SHOULD NSIR PURSUG MORE PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN THE TWO SCHOOLS.“IT SEEMS TO ME THAT HARVARD AND MIT TOGETHER ULD MAKE UP THE FT TNAL NSORTIUM THE WORLD,” PENSLAR ADD. “BUT OM AN OUTSIR’S PERSPECTIVE, OM MY PERSPECTIVE HISTORY, DO SEEM ODD FOR HARVARD TO BE APPARENTLY DUPLITG WHAT HAS DONE SO WELL AT MIT.”FAS SPOKPERSON RACHAEL DANE CLED TO MENT FOR THIS ARTICLE.HALL, THE PHILOSOPHY PROFSOR, SAID “THE CLE OF THE HUMANI ACROSS LLEG AND UNIVERSI THE UNED STAT IS A PRETTY SER MATTER.”“HAVG A NEW FAS AN WHO SAW THAT AS A SER PROBLEM, AND MAYBE ONE THAT DIDN’T JT REQUIRE THROWG ROURC AT THE HUMANI, BUT MAND OF THE HUMANI THAT WE THK HARD ABOUT WHAT OUR MISSN IS AND HOW TO MAKE THAT MISSN LEGIBLE TO YOUNG PEOPLE, SOMEONE WH THOSE SORT OF PRRI WOULD BE GREAT,” HALL SAID.FACULTY VOIC THE SEARCHAT THE MONTHLY FAS MEETG FEBARY, GAY TOLD FACULTY ATTEN THAT SHE AND GARBER WOULD READ EVERY EMAIL SENT TO A DITED AN SEARCH EMAIL ADDRS.“I REALLY N’T OVERSTATE THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR PUT THIS PROCS,” SHE TOLD FACULTY AT A SUBSEQUENT MEETG MARCH.ADVERTISEMENTSHAIR SAID THAT FACULTY “SHOULD BE VERY VOLVED” THE SEARCH.“I THK WOULD BE GREAT IF THE MTEE OR MEMBERS OF THE SEARCH MTEE VISED EACH FAS PARTMENT FOR 45 MUT OR AN HOUR AND HEARD AT A FACULTY MEETG WHAT’S ON THEIR MDS,” SHAIR SAID.UNIVERSY HALL, LOTED HARVARD YARD, HO ADMISTRATIVE OFFIC FOR THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC. BY RYAN N. GAJARAWALASRIVASTAVA, THE OEB PROFSOR, SAID SHE FELT THAT THE PROCS WAS OPEN TO HER FEEDBACK, ADDG WAS NSISTENT WH HER PERCEPTN OF GAY AS AN “AMAZG LISTENER.”“I THK THEY’RE TALKG TO LOTS OF PEOPLE,” SHE SAID.SHE ADD THAT SHE ATTEND ONE OF A HANDFUL OF “SMALL GROUP DISCSNS” FOR TENURE-TRACK FACULTY TO SHARE THEIR PERSPECTIV AND KNEW OF ANOTHER DISCSN FOR NON-TENURE-TRACK FACULTY.THE STCTURE OF THIS SEARCH MIRRORS THAT OF 2018, WH THE G PRINT AND PROVOST AT THE HELM AND A FACULTY MTEE AN ADVISORY PACY. SORENSEN, WHO SERVED ON THE ADVISORY MTEE 2018, SAID THAT THE NOMATN PROCS WAS “VERY OPEN,” AND THAT THE MTEE NARROWED DOWN AN “EXPANSIVE” LIST OF NOME TO A SHORTLIST.BUT, SHE NFIRMED, THE FAL CISN ME DOWN TO BAW AND GARBER.“AS WE ALWAYS KNEW WOULD BE THE SE,” SHE ADD.—STAFF WRER RAHEM D. HAMID N BE REACHED AT .ADVERTISEMENT—STAFF WRER ELIAS J. SCHISGALL N BE REACHED AT . 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Gay is creded wh leadg FAS faculty, stunts, and staff through a panmic that has ed disptn and dislotn at Harvard and across higher tn. “Dean Gay very clearly tablished the fundamental prcipl that guid how FAS addrsed the many challeng posed by the panmic, ” said Christopher Stubbs, the Samuel C.

UPDATE OM DEAN GAY

“Dean Gay’s abily to lead om prciple and valu, alongsi a natural stct to brg people together om across discipl and areas of expertise to addrs big challeng, will serve Harvard well the years to e, ” said Stubbs. “Clde Gay has monstrated visn to advance rearch and tn, ep mment to Harvard’s missn, temperament to listen and learn om the many rich sourc of expertise our faculty, and fortu to make difficult cisns.

Clde Gay, Edgerley Fay Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Scienc, has lnched a broad, three-year strategic planng procs to fe the stctur and rourc need to support long-term excellence teachg and rearch wh and across the many fields and discipl reprented the FAS. There is an appete for the nversatns and an imperative for change, ” said Gay, who put the procs to motn after seeg succs the panmic-born Scenar Planng Procs that engaged workg groups of more than 100 faculty and admistrators to work llaboratively to addrs the moment’s unique challeng and envisn solutns. There is an appete for the nversatns and an imperative for change, ” said Clde Gay, Edgerley Fay Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Scienc.

A MSAGE OM PRINT BAW AND DEAN GAY

The study group livered a report to Gay this semter remendg a visn for how to posn the FAS for broad-based amic excellence, novatn, and staabily.

DEAN CLDE GAY

In the immediate term, Gay will take remendatns om the report to adopt a new mol for enomic budgetg; appot an expert to assist partments, centers, divisns, and the FAS as a whole wh issu related to rtricted funds; and velop a pilot program for more transparent and uniform st and management of mp spac. Gay, who is currently the an of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc, will be the school’s first Black lear and the send woman ever to hold the posn when she tak over next are five thgs to know about the history-makg ’s the dghter of Haian immigrantsGay, 52, was born New York Cy, where her parents, Haian immigrants to the U. “My parents believed that tn opens every door, but of urse they gave me three optns: I uld bee an engeer, a doctor or a lawyer, which I’m sure that other kids of immigrant parents uld relate to, ” Gay said at an announcement ceremony on Thursday.

”Her ti to Harvard n epAfter receivg her bachelor’s gree enomics om Stanford 1992, Gay enrolled graduate school at Harvard, receivg her Ph. Acrdg to Gay’s b on Harvard’s webse, she has “explored such topics as how the electn of mory officeholrs affects cizens’ perceptns of their ernment and their tert polics and public affairs; how neighborhood environments shape racial and polil attus among Black Amerins; the roots of petn and operatn between mory groups, wh a particular foc on relatns between Black Amerins and Latos; and the nsequenc of hog mobily programs for polil participatn among the poor. “She is a scholar of unmon creativy and rigor, wh a strong workg knowledge of the opportuni and challeng facg the FAS, ” current Harvard Print Larry Baw said 2018 when Gay beme an.

But her tenure as an has not been whout ntroversyEarlier this year, more than three dozen Harvard profsors signed an open letter to Gay cricizg her cisn to place a profsor on unpaid leave followg allegatns of sexual misnduct. Clde Gay has led Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc as the Edgerley Fay Dean sce Augt 2018, havg served prevly as Dean of Social Science om 2015 to 2018. As FAS an, Gay has guid efforts to expand stunt accs and opportuny, spur excellence and novatn teachg and rearch, enhance aspects of the FAS’s amic culture, and brg new emphasis and energy to areas such as quantum science and engeerg; climate change; ethnicy, digeney, and migratn; and the humani.

Prr to jog the Harvard faculty, Gay was an assistant profsor of polil science at Stanford Universy om 2000 to 2005, and an associate profsor (tenured) om 2005 to 2006. As Clde Gay prepar to move om her statn Universy Hall to the print’s office across Harvard Yard, one of her most important tasks will be to select her own succsor as the an of the Faculty of Arts and Scienc. Garber ’76 are leadg the search for Gay’s succsor, which was formally lnched Febary, alongsi an advisory mtee of 12 profsors om across the FAS, a Harvard Bs School profsor, and Harvard Law School Dean John F.

FAS DEAN GAY ANNOUNC CLTER SEARCH TO EXPAND FACULTY FOCED ON CLIMATE

By Courty of Melissa BlackallBobo also strsed the importance of faiary wh the FAS, sayg he hop “they lean toward an sir” for the Sorensen, a former an of Arts and Humani who served on the advisory mtee durg the 2018 an search that ultimately selected Gay, said the ndidate had to have admistrative experience.

DEAN'S OFFICE RRPONNCE FIL (EDW F. GAY, DEAN)

Ung the FacultyFor years, Harvard’s prints and FAS ans have been ncentrated the social, Harvard’s current print, has a background enomics and public policy, while Gay is a scholar of polil science and Ain Amerin studi.

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CLAYBGH — WILL HELP PREPARE THE FAS FOR THE POSSIBILY OF HYBRID LEARNG THE FALL, WHICH WOULD CLU -PERSON AND ONLE PONENTS FOR LARGER URS.FAS WILL NTUE TO SEEK ADVICE OM THE DIVISN OF CONTUG EDUTN, WHOSE EXTENSN SCHOOL HAS LIVERED URS VIA ZOOM FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS, SHE ADD.“IT HELPED THAT THE FAS IS HOME TO THE DIVISN OF CONTUG EDUTN, AND BEE OF THAT, WE HAD SOME ALREADY -HOE EXPERTISE LEARNG EFFECTIVELY ONLE AND WERE ABLE TO DRAW ON THAT TO HELP WH OUR PIVOT LAST MARCH,” GAY SAID. “WE’RE AGA DRAWG ON THOSE -HOE EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE AS WE UNRTAKE THE PILOTS THIS SPRG HYBRID LEARNG.”IN SPRG 2021, UNRGRADUATE ENROLLMENT DIPPED NEARLY 20 PERCENT OM THE PREV YEAR AS SOME STUNTS CHOSE TO FER THEIR STUDI. THEIR POTENTIAL RETURN — OR LAYED ARRIVAL, THE SE OF HMEN — THE FALL LEAV OPEN THE POSSIBILY THAT AN UALLY HIGH NUMBER OF STUNTS WILL OPT TO LIVE ON MP, GAY ACKNOWLEDGED.“CERTALY, AS WE NTEMPLATE THE FALL, WE ARE THKG HARD ABOUT WHAT ENROLLMENT MIGHT BE LIKE, AND WHAT MEANS TO NTUE TO PURSUE RINTIAL LIBERAL ARTS TN A NTEXT WHERE WE MAY HAVE A LARGER NUMBER OF STUNTS ENROLLED,” GAY {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTHARVARD PREVLY STATED THAT NNOT GUARANTEE HOG DURG THE 2021-2022 AMIC YEAR TO STUNTS WHO TOOK TIME OFF THIS PAST YEAR.AS HARVARD APPROACH THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF S SHIFT TO REMOTE OPERATNS DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANMIC, GAY SAID SHE WAS “ENORMOLY PROUD” OF THE “CREDIBLE RILIENCE” OF HARVARD AFFILIAT, CG STAFF, FACULTY, AND STUNTS’ FLEXIBILY TO ADAPT TO REMOTE LEARNG AND TEACHG.“EVEN THROUGH [THE PANMIC], WE’VE ACTUALLY MANAGED TO ALSO HAVE SOME POSIVE EXPERIENC,” GAY SAID. “OUR FACULTY HAVE BROUGHT CREATIVE AND NOVATIVE APPROACH TO REMOTE TEACHG.”“OUR STUNTS HAVE EMBRACED THE OPPORTUNI OF REMOTE LEARNG AND HAVE WORKED CREDIBLY HARD TO MAKE THE MOST OF WHAT HAS BEEN A CHALLENGG, CHALLENGG YEAR, AND CERTALY NOT WHAT THEY IMAGED LLEGE TO BE,” SHE ADD.GAY SAID HER “GREATT DISAPPOTMENT” PLANNG FOR THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR WAS NOT PROVIDG SOPHOMOR AT THE COLLEGE THE OPPORTUNY TO RETURN TO HARVARD’S MP.“IF THERE IS A SGLE GREAT KD OF REGRET, WOULD BE THAT SOPHOMOR HAVE HAD TO STAY OFF MP FOR THIS LONG,” SHE SAID.—STAFF WRER MEERA S. 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Pker, a Psychology profsor who has been outspoken the movement for creased amic eedom, urged Gay and Garber to select an FAS an “wh a steadfast mment to disterted quiry, civily, objectivy, reason, scholarship, and eedom of speech and thought” a Feb.

Faculty Voic the SearchAt the monthly FAS meetg Febary, Gay told faculty atten that she and Garber would read every email sent to a dited an search email addrs. GajarawalaSrivastava, the OEB profsor, said she felt that the procs was open to her feedback, addg was nsistent wh her perceptn of Gay as an “amazg listener.

At the tail end of fals week December 2022, as Harvard stunts packed up to stter across the globe for wter vatn, the Universy dropped a surprise announcement: Clde Gay, an of the Faculty of Arts and Scienc, had been chosen to bee Harvard’s next selectn prompted jubilant celebratn om admistrators, who gathered the Smh Camp Center for the announcement. Colleagu regaled her wh praise of her learship and the celebratns, however, the Faculty of Arts and Scienc — Harvard’s largt amic school — geared up to face s next big challenge: replacg s an, Gay has overseen several monumental velopments wh the FAS.

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