Search for Ed School dean begins
Dear Colleagues and Friends, As you know, Kathy McCartney will be concluding her service as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) at the end of the spring term, having been named to become president of Smith College next July. Kathy has led the Ed School with extraordinary energy and effectiveness since 2005. It will be one of my highest priorities in the time ahead to identify an outstanding successor to Kathy and to help sustain the School’s momentum and progress through this time of transition. Many thanks in advance to all of you whose efforts I know will be essential toward that end. Consistent with Harvard’s usual practice in dean searches, I have invited a cross-section of the Ed School’s senior faculty to work with me as an advisory group for the search. I am grateful to the following HGSE faculty members for agreeing to serve: Monica Higgins, Nancy...