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University President Lawrence H. Summers wasn’t the only Harvard official to climb aboard a jet and fly to a vacation destination the weekend before his resignation. While the soon-to-be outgoing president enjoyed a five-day ski trip in Utah, two members of the Harvard Corporation??€”the University’s top governing board—convened in Sarasota, Fla., for a secret rendezvous with the man they hoped would temporarily take the University’s helm: Derek C. Bok. Bok, a former president who led the University from 1971 to 1991, wrote...
...committees have only turned to student and faculty bodies in perfunctory consultations. This tradition lies in stark contrast to the modern norm of comprehensive search committees, which in Harvard-lingo would include Corporation members, Overseers, faculty, staff, and students dealing with the nitty-gritty of the search process; the Corporation??€™s final seal of approval (as a solo act, that is) would become the perfunctory gesture, rubber stamping the collaborative process it had been forced to engage...
...official sense. We hope that in practice, however, as the upcoming presidential search gets underway, it marks the beginning of an era in which the Corporation endeavors to engage students and faculty in more then a token capacity, in a way deserving of those who share the Corporation??€™s interest in Harvard success and who have the vantage of living the Harvard experience today...
...mail sent to the Brown community shortly after the Corporation??€™s decision, University President Ruth J. Simmons wrote that Brown will “exclude from [its] direct investments, those companies whose business activities can be shown to be supporting and facilitating the Sudanese government in its continuing sponsorship of genocidal actions and human rights violations in Darfur...
...fraud case surrounding economist Andrei Shleifer ’82, a close friend and protegé of the University president.But the defense came too late to salvage Summers’ presidency.In a letter dated Tuesday, overshadowed by the announcement of Summers’ resignation that same day, the Corporation??€™s senior fellow, James R. Houghton ’58, addressed fresh allegations that Summers had shielded Shleifer from disciplinary action at Harvard. Several professors raised concerns about the case at the explosive Feb. 7 Faculty meeting that precipitated Summers’ downfall.“President Summers...