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...Summers, who spoke on the importance of women’s leadership. However, at the well-attended “Women in Science” panel on Friday, chaired by Evelynn M. Hammonds, professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies and Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard, Summers’ name was not mentioned. Hammonds gave a historical account of women in the sciences and indicated that although the number of women getting bachelors in the sciences has been increasing since 1966 and even surpassed the number of males...
...science professor who trained as a physicist and electrical engineer, said that she and her peer group of African-American science scholars “encountered far far more barriers than we ever thought existed.” Hammonds—who is Harvard’s senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, a post that puts her in charge of recruiting more female and minority professors—said that the number of African-Americans in hard-science Ph.D. programs had decreased in recent decades. The panel came in the context of a weekend conference sponsored...
...Case’s highest governing board, has the power to remove the president. The board has recently expressed support for the president. The faculty in Case’s College of Arts and Sciences, which comprises 8.8 percent of the entire faculty, also voted no-confidence in the provost, John L. Anderson, by a margin of 97 to 68. Hundert, who has held his post since 2002, wrote in an e-mail to the Case community last week that he accepted responsibility for a drop in donations and promised to address the university’s fiscal difficulties, according...
...exchange between Schmid and Ryan, on one side, and Wisse, on the other, was a departure from the otherwise upbeat tone at yesterday’s session. “Optimism was the word of the day,” former Provost Jerry R. Green, an economics professor, said. Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, who had been one of Summers’ most vocal opponents, quipped, “It was almost a love fest...
Green, who as provost from 1992 to 1994 was Harvard’s second-highest administrator, said of yesterday’s session: “I don’t think anybody expressed a doubt about the good will of the Faculty and the good will of the Corporation...