Word: discontentment
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The resignation of University President Lawrence H. Summers has raised a point of contention in the Harvard community: when the University faculty needs to speak, who speaks for it? Although it is easy for students at the College to adopt the attitude that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS...
Cataclysm usually makes for a teaching moment. Not so with the resignation of Larry Summers.If I hadn’t witnessed it firsthand, I’d say Summers’ ouster had all the makings of one of those storylines in which implausible characters make the plot altogether fantastic...
Examples of Faculty discontent with Kirby are manifold. From his failed endorsement of pre-registration to the faculty hiring slowdown this fall, Kirby incurred the wrath of the Faculty on a range of budgetary and leadership issues. The private minutes of the informal meetings of department chairs, obtained by The...
The real roots—and the full extent—of the Faculty’s continued discontent with the president are only now becoming clear.
Some professors point to the circumstances under which the then-dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) departed a year ago as an example of the internal disputes that fed their discontent.