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...results of a fifth question posed to Faculty members were discarded on the advice of outside experts, who said the question—”Do you think Summers stifles dissent?”—was too ambiguous to produce a meaningful result...
...results of a fifth question posed to Faculty members were discarded on the advice of outside experts, who said the question—”Do you think Summers stifles dissent?”—was too ambiguous to produce a meaningful result...
...said they were reluctant to respond for fear of retribution from the central administration. One professor who asked not to be named said the chair of his department instructed faculty to respond to the poll by phone rather than e-mail to avoid creating a written record of their dissent...
...rounded out. He seems not yet to have fully found his way in making the transition from faculty member to President, and, alas, the two are not the same; criticism from the President feels different than criticism from a colleague. But that is different from refusing to tolerate dissent. I’ve crossed swords with him in more than one setting, and while being criticized directly and forcefully by the President can be unnerving, especially in the company of others, one can criticize him back just as directly. That, indeed, is one of his great virtues; he seems...
Addressing his critics, whose piercing attacks at Tuesday’s Faculty meeting went well beyond his remarks on women in science, Summers said he was open to dissent on all fronts...