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Though faculty concern with the decline in tenure offers began to brim last summer, when a group of professors expressed its disappointment with the numbers in a letter to Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, it did not explode until Summers suggested on Jan. 14 that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might be responsible for the dearth of female professors in the sciences...
Harper declined to comment on his relationship with Summers yesterday, saying only, “I concluded I could no longer support President Summers.” Harper said he had outlined his reasons for leaving the Corporation in a letter to Summers on July 14, but he would not divulge the details of that letter yesterday...
John Longbrake, Summers’ spokesman, said the president would not release the letter. “We regard all Corporation communication as confidential,” Longbrake added...
Angered by University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on women and minorities, Conrad K. Harper ultimately resigned from the Harvard Corporation last month after a dispute over Summers’ salary, according to a letter from Harper to Summers released by the president Monday...
...letter, which the University had previously said would not be made public, reveals that Harper called on Summers to step down two days after the no-confidence vote by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in March. “I believe that Harvard’s best interests require your resignation,” Harper concluded in his letter to Summers on July...