Word: curricular
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...fallout from Summers’ remarks—culminating in a stunning vote of no confidence in the president on March 15—brought the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to a near-standstill, delaying the full Faculty’s discussion of the Harvard College Curricular Review and pushing any votes on the review to the next academic year...
...docket that day were a discussion of Kirby’s annual letter to the Faculty and a briefing on the progress of the ongoing curricular review—but the meeting never made it beyond the questions period...
...professors in attendance, only one applauded, offering two brief claps after Matory’s speech. The faculty went on to discuss the curricular review, which they had been scheduled to take up two months earlier...
...former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 back to Harvard—but did not directly attack Summers’ leadership. And two weeks later, at the last Faculty meeting of the year, the 150 or so professors in attendance heard further presentations of the curricular review. There was no mention of the crisis that had defined the Faculty for the better part of a semester...
...long-term consequences of this turbulent semester remain to be seen. Summers has already announced he will no longer participate in the curricular review—possibly a reaction to accusations from professors that the president was exerting undue influence in Faculty affairs...