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This outpouring negative sentiment at the faculty meeting two days ago was hardly the first time that some had complained about Summers’ penchant for stifling debate and his inattentiveness to professors?? suggestions. In September of 2002, Summers characterized the effects, if not the aim, of a campaign to divest Harvard from Israel as anti-Semitic. In response, a number of professors, including Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, criticized the president harshly for limiting open discussion on the topic. During Allston planning last February, Professor of German Peter J. Burgard bemoaned the lack...
...best learning environment for their class. Certain criteria such as good attendance and punctuality are among the values professors seek to uphold in the classroom. “Shopping period goes both ways,” Wegner argued. “The students are shopping and so are professors??If you were in the room in a seat at the time the class began, I thought that was good enough criteria for you to be in the class.” While attendance and punctuality are certainly valuable attributes, they should not be the determining factors for enrollment...
...Professors?? anger over Summers’ remarks—voiced throughout the month via critical internal letters and op-ed pieces in national newspapers—erupted Tuesday, as Faculty hoped to redress long-standing grievances by honing in on the current situation...
With so few FTEs and opportunities for advancement, WGS is hamstrung to recruit and retain distinguished professors??and in turn to attract concentrators. “Harvard students tend to seek out big-name professors and frequently consider their scholarly celebrity status a significant draw, and WGS needs to have proper resources and funding to bring such distinguished academics to the committee, and more important, to keep them there,” said Tracy E. Nowski ’07, currently the only full WGS sophomore concentrator. According to WGS Assistant Director Kathleen Coll, there are only...
...inauguration address his “freedom speech.” Spreading liberty overseas is certainly a noble aspiration, but Bush’s plan for defeating tyranny is about as well conceived as University President Lawrence H. Summers’ plan for empowering female science professors??and about as tactfully articulated. When Bush waxed poetic about the “untamed fire of freedom,” for instance, the phrase likely had a very special meaning to the citizens of Fallujah...