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...recent weeks, some of the top individual donors to Harvard—whose contributions help fund student financial aid, the forthcoming Allston expansion, and Summers’ salary—have for the most part stood by Summers, expressing more concern about the narrow focus of the debate than about Summers’ remarks themselves...
...officer was sent to Morgan Hall in Allston because of complaints about a person meandering the halls and sticking his/her head into varying offices. A search proved unsuccessful...
Summers’ top-down management style—regularly making requests of departments without using Harvard’s reporting structure, and keeping Faculty as distant from Allston planning as possible—suggests that he views Harvard less like an institution of higher learning and more like a Fortune 500 company (or perhaps a cabinet-level department). Summers might boast that his methods cut through red tape; indeed, he compared Harvard to a Ford factory in explaining to classmates at my freshman barbecue why the matter of a living wage was for administrators alone to debate. But academic...
...Mass. Hall (he is the first president to have a personal press officer), how can the Corporation know what is going on? Of course, the Corporation would do well to consider his ability to fundraise in the current climate. Summers’ top agenda items, such as the Allston campus, rely on convincing donors of Harvard’s continued relevance—difficult when the president’s management style is questioned daily on The New York Times’ front page, and when the Princeton University president offers her school as an “Ellis Island?...
...collegial towards faculty belonging to already underrepresented groups, from former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 to members of the Committee on Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. There are questions of real input into the planning of Harvard’s future, whether regarding Allston, the Curricular Review or university governance as a whole...