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...specifics of his views, may be his greatest legacy to Harvard. His approach has already laid the groundwork for a science-oriented, interdisciplinary campus in Allston and encouraged members of the Harvard College Curricular Review to adopt the same interdisciplinary approach to introductory undergraduate courses. It was the president??s outspokenness that spurred even the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), which for the past year has defined itself in opposition to Summers, to assert itself in ways that will have a lasting influence on FAS-Mass. Hall power relations. At his last study break with undergraduates...
...unforgivable.”The search was officially launched March 30—just over five weeks after Summers’ resignation—with the announcement of the members of the search committee. The committee comprises the six members of the Harvard Corporation—other than the president??and three members of the Board of Overseers.“We’ve just really begun our activities,” the search committee’s chair, Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58, writes in an e-mail...
...after the leak, Summers was greeted with a chorus of blame for the public embarrassment of Kirby. He had tried to quell the rising Faculty anger by compromising with professors on the process for appointing Kirby’s successor—a power traditionally exerted solely by the president??but even that did not placate his staunchest critics...
Several members of the Corporation and its sister body, the Board of Overseers, were shocked at the president??s supposed mismanagement of Kirby’s dismissal, according to a professor who spoke with members of both boards...
...weeks leading up to the contentious Faculty meeting, Keohane, Reischauer, and Houghton had been actively soliciting opinions on Summers, according to several FAS professors. In those conversations, Corporation members remained outwardly optimistic about the president??s chances...