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...provost, he said. The dean of GSAS has traditionally been responsible for such programs.At a 2004 meeting, Summers justified his proposal by saying “that I was compromised by my appointment in the FAS,” according to Ellison, who then and now held the Cowles professorship in the FAS Anthropology Department.When he heard that another attendee at the meeting told others that the shift “might well happen,” Ellison offered to resign, according to his account.After Summers heard about the offer, he contacted Ellison and, in a “heated?...
Harvard University announced yesterday the establishment of the University-wide $50 million Professorship Challenge Fund that will be used to establish professorships for both current professors and new hires.“It is going to be a terrific effort,” said Donella M. Rapier, vice president for alumni affairs and development.When donors give $3 million for faculty development, the Challenge Fund will match these gifts with $1 million. The fund will match $1.5 million gifts with $500,000. Six donors, including University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg ’68, who helped to develop the fund, donated...
...concerned to make sure that Professor Shleifer remained at Harvard” and expressed as much to then-Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, Summers testified in a 2002 deposition quoted in the article. Knowles later elevated Shleifer to an endowed professorship...
...Shleifer, meanwhile, remains a senior Faculty member with a coveted endowed professorship. Yet some Faculty members speculate that Harvard has pursued or is considering disciplinary action against...
...return for dropping millions of dollars to endow a professorship, donors can forever have their names associated with the esoteric study of their choice...