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...professors’ attacks on Summers’ leadership. Another Faculty meeting, scheduled for this past Tuesday, was cancelled the day after Summers’ Feb. 21 resignation to give professors “time to settle,” according to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan. Kirby, who is in the final months of his tenure as dean, ended yesterday’s letter with a hopeful look to the future. “The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the University are longer-lived than any of us as individuals...
...stems from interactions that occurred in private and that they don’t want described in the press. “The problem is that many people have felt that it will not be good for Harvard if we wash dirty linen in public,” said Judith L. Ryan, the Weary professor of Germanic literatures and languages, and the sponsor of the no-confidence resolution that the full Faculty would have voted on at its cancelled meeting Tuesday. “But because of our wish to protect the institution,” Ryan added...
...last year, when Summers sparked a national uproar with his remarks on women in science, the College experienced “virtually no change in the yield,” Fitzsimmons said.When asked whether the controversy over Summers would deter prospective students, Weary Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatue Judith L. Ryan said, “I think that is something that would concern anybody.”Yet one Harvard hopeful, Clay R. Hane, a senior at Cary Academy in North Carolina, said, “I don’t think it would be a major make...
...fall,” Corker says. More to the point, many of the initiatives Summers pursued as president—from the Curricular Review to his emphasis on faculty-student contact—were directly related to the undergraduate experience. In the words of Assistant Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, “President Summers was very, very supportive of the college and of undergraduate life.”But with the exception of student leaders and a few particularly spirited undergrads, the student body has insisted on apathy throughout the Summers era. And by and large, their...
...Faculty meeting in which he would have faced the second no-confidence motion of his career. In the first vote, held last March, the Faculty of Arts and Science voted a lack of confidence in Summers by a margin of 218-185. Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, who had proposed the second no-confidence motion, cautioned against overextending the national influence of Summers’ resignation. “There is no reason to start imagining a rash of copy-cat motions,” she wrote in an e-mail yesterday. Krauss said...