‘A LOVING LEADER’

Back across the river at Cabot House, Khurana has established a reputation as an empathetic House master invested in all aspects of students lives, affiliates there say.

Cabot House tutors said that they view Khurana as an open-minded and caring House master.

“He emphasizes community needs,” Maryam M. Gharavi, a tutor in the House who interviewed Khurana during the masters selection process, wrote in an email to The Crimson. “He stresses care and attention to the whole student.”

Gharavi said that Khurana welcomes different perspectives on controversial matters related to student life.

“He doesn't quiet difficult discussion and never makes the people around him feel that they have to dampen who they are outside of their structural roles,” she wrote. “I don't know anyone more dedicated to empowering the whole student than Rakesh Khurana.”

Aron Zingman, another Cabot tutor, wrote in an email that Khurana is “the best boss you could hope for.”

“He inspires people and makes them feel accomplished through the work [they] do with his support,” Zingman wrote.

Nworah B. Ayogu ’10, an Adams House tutor who has worked with Khurana and has taken his class, called the incoming dean “warm and fuzzy.”

“He’s a loving leader in the sense that he’s someone who leads with emotion,” Ayogu said, adding that Khurana “puts students first.”

“He’s very interested in people as people,” he said.

Khurana’s colleagues echoed these sentiments of his approach to student life.

“As a House master, the amount of caring and purpose he brings is extraordinary,” Gulati said.

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