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Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 announced on Friday that he will offer Assistant Dean of the College Deborah Foster her job back as director of special concentrations, just over a week after Foster was alerted of her pending dismissal.
Gross told the students and alumni—who were prepared to protest if he declined to reinstate Foster—that he would make a public statement of apology for the handling of Foster’s dismissal.
Despite the protestors’ request, Gross said that he cannot provide details of Foster’s dismissal because matters regarding personnel are private.
Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore Stephen A. Mitchell, who is also chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology, said that he was never contacted by University Hall about Foster’s administrative dismissal and was personally told the news by Foster.
Last spring, Summers made now-notorious comments suggesting that differences in intrinsic aptitude between men and women might account for the under-representation of women in positions of academic science. This incident catalyzed a series of Faculty meetings that culminated in an unprecedented vote of “lack of...