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...sorry that the regents do not feel the same way.” The petition’s authors pointed to two controversial incidents of Summers’ tenure as Harvard president, including a 2005 speech in which Summers suggested that “issues of intrinsic aptitude?? might partially account for the lack of females in the upper echelons of science and engineering fields. They also cited Summers’ dispute with former African American studies professor Cornel R. West ’74. West, who is black, left for Princeton after Summers reportedly asked...
...course heads, Summers is a martyr of taboo within the ivory tower. They publicly defended Summers after he suggested, at an economics conference nearly 28 months ago, that “intrinsic aptitude?? could partially account for the dearth of female scientists at elite universities. When the remarks became public, he faced a wave of condemnation at Harvard and across the country...
...Balch said that he believed Faust was chosen in part as a product of the post-Lawrence H. Summers environment. The former Harvard president, who was forced to resign from his post last February, sparked an outcry in 2005 when he proposed that “issues of intrinsic aptitude?? might be one factor explaining the underrepresentation of women in the sciences. The uproar surrounding Summers’ departure and Faust’s scholarly interests in the historical role of women and gender, Balch said on Wednesday, might mean that Faust would consider gender in deciding...
...managing the complicated task of developing a science-focused campus in Allston. She has led the initiative to increase the number of female scientists at Harvard—an effort launched by then-President Lawrence H. Summers after his January 2005 remarks about the “intrinsic aptitude?? of women in science.Now, the woman who served as Summers’ troubleshooter is poised to become his successor.According to her friends and colleagues, Faust welcomes the challenge. Walter Licht ’67, the chair of the history department at Penn, where Faust formerly taught, said that...
...have to find means to build consensus among its many factions, an area in which Summers did not succeed—even with some help from Faust herself.After Summers drew wide criticism in 2005 following comments he made suggesting that women may have a lower “intrinsic aptitude?? for science than men, Faust acted as his adviser, ultimately leading a university-wide initiative that led to the creation of two task forces to find means to promote the advancement of women at Harvard. Through the next year, she continued to serve as an adviser...