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...ends, so long as the president’s office stays out of the educating business. Bureaucrats are really unprepared to make these sorts of decisions, and Summers never should have tried to dictate what counts as “acceptable” academic work (à la the Cornel West scandal). If the Corporation selects a new president who stays out of the academic fray, our problems will be gone. But quarantining our problems won’t solve them; if Harvard is to grow, academics and administration cannot help but intersect. Increasing international opportunities, channeling more research funding...
...doesn’t have a “Larry story”: an account of some unpleasant encounter with the president, in which he was unnecessarily hostile or dismissive, alienating or offending someone (or everyone) in the room. As with the departure of former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, these are often private meetings, wherein Summers can act as unprofessionally as possible without the threat of public record or recourse. Whether asserting his belief that economists are smarter than other social scientists, or routinely disparaging members of faculty, Summers’ arrogance often...
Lawrence H. Summers, who began his presidency by tangling publicly with black studies scholar Cornel R. West ’74, is set to end his five-year term by approving tenure appointments for at least four Faculty members in the African and African-American Studies Department...
...Ironically Larry’s presidency starts with his combat with Cornel West and it might end with him recruiting more black people in a shorter period of time than any president in history,” said outgoing Af-Am chair Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. “I think that [Dean of the Faculty William C.] Kirby and Summers will be remembered in part for their support for this initiative...
...Former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 departed for Princeton University in 2002 after a much-publicized tiff with Summers. Joining West at Princeton was former Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah...