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Bored by the challenge of redefining higher learning through the once-per-quarter-century Harvard College Curricular Review, professors hijacked yesterday’s Faculty meeting and directed its agenda once again toward criticisms of University President Lawrence H. Summers. The College is alive again? Nay, it is, unfortunately, floundering. At the risk of deifying a president this page has often disagreed with, we stand unconvinced and unimpressed by the latest Faculty-led outburst against Summers. Further, we urge the remaining disgruntled members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in the absence of substantive disagreement with Summers?...
...Under Kirby, who became dean in July 2002, the Faculty has struggled with a slow-moving curricular review and the specter of budget deficits in the tens of millions of dollars...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will have its first full meeting of the semester today, as administrators attempt to keep professors’ attention on the curricular review in the wake of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s resignation and continuing unhappiness with University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership. The review has made noticeable progress in recent months. All the committee reports have been completed and compiled. A number of Faculty meetings this fall were spent discussing the reports. And draft legislation for changes to concentrations has been considered by the Faculty Council...
...academic year, but the tension that cost Kirby his job was four years in the making.Even those with front-row seats to the divisions between Summers and Kirby differ in their portrayals of the factors that led to the dean’s resignation. Policy issues, ranging from the curricular review to Faculty finances to the central administration’s agenda to consolidate power over the University, sharpened tensions between the two. And Kirby’s silence in the face of his Faculty’s uprising last spring after Summers’ comments on women in science...
...IT’S THE RIGHT TIME” In the Friday morning interview, Kirby stressed that “for many reasons, it’s the right time” to step down.Kirby said he did not expect his resignation, effective June 30, to derail the curricular review—as some professors have said it might. “You cannot expect that the next dean will come in and lead a counter-reformation,” Kirby said, casting the recommendations of the review’s committees as views of the Faculty...