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...Crimson, Ellison said his decision to step down was prompted by what he said were Summers’ broken promises and half-truths—all reflected in conflict over Summers’ proposal to transfer authority of a new life sciences Ph.D. degree program to the 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...
...Faculty’s disappointing failure to take leadership in this seminal initiative. He has also commissioned a Task Force on Women Faculty and appointed Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies Evelynn M. Hammonds to the new position of senior vice provost for Faculty development and diversity. Most importantly, if we take the discontented faculty members at their word last spring, it has been encouraging to see that the infamously combative Summers has steered clear of high profile controversies that once frequently landed him in the headlines of national newspapers.All this for naught...
...size of individual grants shrinks, university researchers have to win more of them to keep research going, which requires enormous amounts of extra paperwork. "It's decreased their quality of life," says Paul Jennings, provost of Caltech and a civil engineer. When students see how much time a professor spends on bureaucratic busywork, says Jennings, they say, "I don't want to do that." It's not just red tape either, says Paul Nurse, president of Rockefeller University and a 2001 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine. "If we compare what our best undergraduates get paid as a graduate student...
...million by 2010. But the two people briefed on the sale of Mass. Hall said that the move was prompted by the central administration’s desire to expand its offices, not the Faculty’s budget woes. Mass. Hall currently houses the offices of Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, his seven vice presidents, and other senior staff...
...birth of a child.Martin’s position as diversity advisor was proposed by the two task forces on women created in the wake of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on women in science a year ago.Evelynn M. Hammonds, whose post as senior vice provost for development and diversity also grew out of the task forces’ reports, is now leading a new task force on work and life that will issue University-wide recommendations for possible changes to maternity leave policies.Martin said the timing of her spring appearance before the Council will largely hinge...