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...little to help Harvard move on. Harvard has hardly been spared the barbs of our nation’s commentators; our “dirty linen” has had a very public airing already. For the good of the University, it’s time to hear the faculty??s side of the story. The only interest served by allowing speculation to continue to trump substance is that of Harvard’s many vocal detractors...
Washing its dirty laundry will also allow the Faculty to finally wash its hands of the extraneous concerns that have possessed it for the past year. Closing shop on the acrimony of the Summers years will keep it from coming back to once again obscure the Faculty??s more pressing concerns. The crucial issues of improving undergraduate teaching, reforming the curriculum and overhauling advising continue to demand the full attention and authority of the Faculty, as well as the confidence of the students and administration. The Faculty cannot start over on a blank slate without first wiping...
...function adequately enough when everyone is left to their own devices. Incompetent management seems not to matter, the ship goes on sailing. The trouble comes when drastic change is needed.” By her reckoning, Summers’ attempts at any change put him in the Faculty??s sights...
...columnist called Harvard students too careerist to care about Summers’ ouster. We do care. But our faith in the Faculty??s reasons for throwing Summers out has, so far, muted any protest. Unless Faculty members speak up soon, that faith will be put sorely to the test...
...long and complicated story that I expect that I’m not in the position to objectively assess at this point,” Summers responded. Summers cited tension with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which he called “such a central faculty?? at the University, as his reason for resigning. But the president said he felt he had a good rapport with undergraduates and productive working relationships with faculty in the professional schools during his tenure. And the president said he had sensed “great support” for his goals...