Word: discontentment
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The Faculty Council, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) 18-member governing body, hopes to meet with members of the Harvard Corporation to discuss faculty discontent with University President Lawrence H. Summers’ governance of the University.
“It’s quite perplexing and distressing to read in the media...that the Corporation do not even know that the Faculty are disgruntled or discontent,” said Assistant Professor of Sociology Prudence L. Carter, who is a member of the Council. ?...
A Faculty divided against itself, its Dean, and its President cannot be expected to maintain its position at the forefront of academia. Consequently, we see the more civil tone at Tuesday’s emergency meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) as an overwhelmingly positive sign that...
But as the Faculty discussion moves to mending fences and improving relationships with Massachusetts Hall, it is clear that many of the problems that contributed to the recent outburst of discontent cannot be fixed by mere changes in attitude and tone. The presence of systemic flaws in the channels of...
Conant University Professor Stephen Owen said that much of the Faculty discontent has stemmed from the over-centralization of power in Mass. Hall.