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...names fitting this profile in 2000, University President Lawrence H. Summers was hired. The Corporation had high expectations that the Washington-trained economist would use the visibility of the Harvard presidency to take the University in daring directions. Five years later, Summers is leaving Mass. Hall, having lost the Corporation??s support after frequent tussles with a Faculty affronted by his leadership style. But during his tenure, Summers for a time did as the Corporation had hoped, using his pulpit to extend Harvard’s international reach, push for a more rigorous undergraduate curriculum, and endorse...
...known among his colleagues as the University’s “chief cheerleader” during his 27 years on the Harvard Corporation, died on April 18 at age 83 due to complications following a stroke. In his time on the Corporation??the University’s highest governing body—Stone served on the search committee that named Neil L. Rudenstine Harvard’s 26th president in 1991. And as the Corporation??s senior fellow until 2002, he led the panel that ultimately picked Lawrence H. Summers as its 27th. Incoming...
...second time would almost be unforgivable.”The search was officially launched March 30—just over five weeks after Summers’ resignation—with the announcement of the members of the search committee. The committee comprises the six members of the Harvard Corporation??other than the president—and three members of the Board of Overseers.“We’ve just really begun our activities,” the search committee’s chair, Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58, writes...
James R. Houghton ’58—the senior fellow of the University’s most powerful body, the Harvard Corporation??had concluded that it was time for the presidency of Lawrence Henry Summers to come...
Internally, the Corporation??s list of grievances was growing. Several Corporation fellows fretted over Summers’ inability to manage his seemingly never-ending row with the Faculty, the source says. Even after the no-confidence vote, tensions flared hotter last spring amid rumors that Summers had considered granting non-FAS schools the power to award PhD diplomas. At a full Faculty meeting in April of 2005, Summers denied the rumors. But the then-dean of the FAS graduate school, Peter T. Ellison, would later tell a Corporation member that Summers’ denial...