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...Fifteen Minutes: Why did you submit the new no confidence motion? Judith Ryan: Because I felt that a number of us were concerned about the way in which President Summers is leading the University, particularly in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. And I felt that he himself has a vision of the educational project that is perhaps narrower than we’d like to see. FM: But the Faculty has made its opinion of President Summers clear before. The Corporation disagreed. Don’t you think it’s Summers’ right to continue working...
...motion on the agenda for the Feb. 28 meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) calls on the Harvard Corporation, the only body with the power to fire University President Lawrence H. Summers, to intervene in the escalating battle between professors and the central administration...
Passage of the motion would put even more pressure on the outwardly silent and secretive governing body that is slowly beginning to show signs of increased interest in the University’s latest crisis of governance...
...This Faculty respectfully adjures the Governing Boards, especially the Corporation, to re-establish in collaboration with the Faculty effective governance and leadership of Harvard University,” the motion reads...
Fisher’s motion comes just days after Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith Ryan put a resolution on the same Feb. 28 docket asking the Faculty to vote on whether or not it “continues to lack confidence in the leadership of President Lawrence H. Summers.” Summers lost a similar vote 218–185 last March...