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...Under Summers’ leadership, the University established the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, which substantially reduced tuition costs for low-income students and broadened the College’s applicant pool. Finally, it was a grant from the President??s office this past fall that will finally begin to address the problems facing social space in undergraduate life—it earmarked millions of dollars for a pub in Loker Commons, a café in Lamont, and a plethora of student group space in the Hilles Building...
...most of these instances, Summers can only be faulted for being too much a public intellectual and too little a politically aware university president??a fault of excess, perhaps, but not a fault that should have cost Summers his job. Too often, he was viewed under a microscope by a Faculty which appeared to look for, if not outright hope for, Summers, and his vision for accelerated change, to fail...
Although the tension between Summers and the University’s faculty has made national news for much of his tenure, many visitors—and even the occasional Cantabrigian—were caught off-guard by news of the president??s resignation yesterday afternoon...
Summers’ resignation ended his fever-pitched fight with Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) professors—a battle that was headed for a Feb. 28 showdown when the full Faculty was scheduled to consider a motion of no confidence in the president??s leadership...
Calling the resignation “as difficult a decision that I’ve had to make,” Summers said that he consulted with members of the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing body with the sole authority to fire the president??prior to reaching a conclusion...