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...over the past weeks report an outpouring of criticism of University President Lawrence H. Summers within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Lawyers, perhaps, are constitutionally inclined to see multiple sides of a story where some see only one. Faculty complain that they have been left out of Allston planning, but many have participated in a welter of committees, and on a task of that complexity, a considerable amount of centralized decisionmaking is required. (I do not know if there was more faculty discussion of Allston before Summers’ arrival, but there surely was not much progress...
Many aspects of Summers’ tenure—his bull-in-a-china shop reputation, his handling of Allston or the Core or the appointment of deans, his brusque or ‘corporate’ style—deserve serious and searching discussion. Under his leadership, Harvard is making long-term changes to its curriculum and physical plant. If those decisions are being made poorly, or without appropriate consultation, the Faculty needs to speak...
...with the complaints about Allston, questions about Summers’ attitude toward racial diversity in the Faculty are long-standing...
...meeting, when Professor of German Peter J. Burgard asked Summers whether the Faculty would vote on Allston plans, Summers answered only by saying...
Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn echoed these concerns at Tuesday’s meeting, saying that Faculty were not given enough of a voice in Allston planning...