Should the students be involved in the choice of the next president of Harvard University?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most search committees for high level positions (deans, presidents) have some sort of student representation. It's a big committee with faculty, staff, administrators, alumns, trustees, and probably a student or two.

Well, somebody has to fetch the coffee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The same students who perpetuated anti-semitic hate speech? No.

This. The selection committee should be a room full of grownups to ensure Harvard always has grownups in the room. The kids seem to think harassing minority student groups is ok, and clearly need to be taught better.

[Anonymous]

The students would pick Yahya Sinwar to lead the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be tough for 18-year-old students to catch a serial plagiarist

+100 difficult to believe they hired a President earning $900,000 a year who was lifting such large sections of text in like every academic paper over the years with no citation back to the original work. Just wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would be tough for 18-year-old students to catch a serial plagiarist

+100 difficult to believe they hired a President earning $900,000 a year who was lifting such large sections of text in like every academic paper over the years with no citation back to the original work. Just wow.

Gay was an unusual selection whose original appointment was controversial due to her lightweight background and this is not typical of university presidents. There were powerful people on the board, possibly even just the one person, who wanted her for reasons unknown and made it happen. Don't ask me why, we'll probably never know other than perhaps a form of insidious cronyism involving egos and powers behind the throne mindsets. I'm thinking the latter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should the students be involved in the choice of the next president of Harvard University?

Should the actual student body be a part of the process?

No.

Here’s hoping they replace Gay with another equally woke person just to infuriate the right wingers who are evidently all about cancel culture.

This explains everything you need to know about Democrats. If it weren’t for double standards, they’d have no standards at all. You are an absolute clown, trying to convince people that Republicans created culture -go back under your rock.

[Anonymous]

*created cancel culture

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would be tough for 18-year-old students to catch a serial plagiarist

+100 difficult to believe they hired a President earning $900,000 a year who was lifting such large sections of text in like every academic paper over the years with no citation back to the original work. Just wow.

The president of the United States plagiarizes, and I guess the President of Harvard thought it was okay too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would be tough for 18-year-old students to catch a serial plagiarist

+100 difficult to believe they hired a President earning $900,000 a year who was lifting such large sections of text in like every academic paper over the years with no citation back to the original work. Just wow.

The president of the United States plagiarizes, and I guess the President of Harvard thought it was okay too.

Totally not okay.

[Anonymous]

Student Rep, of course. Otherwise, definitely not and I can’t imagine anyone with more than two brain cells thinking that would be a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Harvard ALREADY named a new president. Harvard named Provost Alan M. Garber, alum and university chief academic officer, as interim president. The stay become a long-term gig.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would be tough for 18-year-old students to catch a serial plagiarist

+100 difficult to believe they hired a President earning $900,000 a year who was lifting such large sections of text in like every academic paper over the years with no citation back to the original work. Just wow.

The president of the United States plagiarizes, and I guess the President of Harvard thought it was okay too.

Totally not okay.

Never okay, but especially egregious when perpetrated by professional academics.

[Anonymous]

No. But clearly neither should the Harvard Corporation. Perhaps place candidate names on a wall and a blindfolded person throws a dart and name closest to where dart lands is the luck winner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There usually are student reps on the search committee.

the person asking the question simply demonstrates they know little to nothing about the job of a college president.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would be tough for 18-year-old students to catch a serial plagiarist

+100 difficult to believe they hired a President earning $900,000 a year who was lifting such large sections of text in like every academic paper over the years with no citation back to the original work. Just wow.

In all fairness, The Economist - a British newspaper with no axe to grind - reported only half of her 11 journal articles were plagiarized.

They seemed more bothered that 11 is a pretty thin publication list for President of any top university.