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...Summers had a worthy vision but was unable to make that vision a reality. The former treasury secretary will soon be a president emeritus, and his seat at the center of the academic world will expire in four short months. We hope that the Corporation will appoint an able successor with the overflowing ambition that defined Summers’ brief presidency and has opened Harvard to the prospect of tremendous—and perhaps even unprecedented—progress...
Despite the differences between the two men, members of the Harvard community contacted by The Crimson—including Summers’ longtime supporters—universally offered praise yesterday for Bok and the Corporation’s decision to appoint...
...UC’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC) will appoint seven members to the new advisory committee using a campus-wide application process. No more than two members of the SAC will be on the new committee...
...magazine). But Icahn could not win the support of key shareholders, who balked at his plan to oust Parsons and install a new slate of directors as a precursor to a company breakup. Parsons and Icahn talked about striking a deal, but the talks stumbled after Parsons declined to appoint two of Icahn's handpicked directors. Icahn scaled back that demand, and the two finally reached a truce last week." I don't think shareholders were ready to give me the keys," Icahn told the New York Times. (Icahn declined to talk with TIME...
...thousands of students and alumni who have opinions of their own. But chiefly, Harvard’s governance is set up in a way that makes plain that professors, who are ultimately employees, do not hold the reins of power. That function is left to the Corporation, who can appoint and remove a president, and who consider all relevant inputs of opinion. So far, neither its members nor the alumni Board of Overseers have found cause to bring Summers to task.Moreover, when a governing body votes “yes” to a no-confidence motion, there exists...