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...close friend of Shleifer—was named president. In a 2002 deposition, Summers acknowledged that earlier in his presidency, he had told Knowles that he was “concerned to make sure that Professor Shleifer remained at Harvard.” Knowles elevated Shleifer to the Jones professorship...
...close friend of Shleifer—was named president. In a 2002 deposition, Summers acknowledged that earlier in his presidency, he had told Knowles that he was “concerned to make sure that Professor Shleifer remained at Harvard.” Knowles elevated Shleifer to the Jones professorship in 2002.If Knowles recommends the retraction of Shleifer’s appointment, University rules dictate that he must go to the Corporation for implementation. The third statute of the University’s charter gives the Corporation the authority to remove professors only for “grave misconduct...
...University of Melbourne where she received both a bachelor’s and master’s of science degree. After completing post-doctoral work at Yale in the mid-1970s, she became a professor at University of California, Berkeley for 12 years and then assumed a professorship at University of California, San Francisco...
...Resources (CUR), an advisory group of major alumni donors, says that he also refrained from donating this year as a result of the resignation.“The fact that [Summers] is no longer there is discouraging to some,” says Wein, who has previously endowed a professorship at the Business School. OUT OF THE WOODWORKBut Summers’ departure may serve as an inducement to other donors to open up their checkbooks. Data released by the University in November of last year show that the alumni participation rate in the Harvard College Fund reached a 16-year...
...indispensable principle of scholarship: that evidence, logic, and self-scrutiny must prevail over any test of group loyalty.Better publicized was Summers’ spat with world-renowned African-American philosopher Cornel R. West ’74, who, as a University Professor, occupied the most selective rank of tenured professorship. Summers, according to West, instructed West to change his writings, discontinue his support of certain political candidates, and make regular compliance reports to Summers. When West complained, Summers reportedly made unsubstantiated insinuations about West’s personal life at a New York Times editorial board meeting, according to Richard...