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...attacks on Summers’ leadership. Another Faculty meeting, scheduled for this past Tuesday, was cancelled the day after Summers’ Feb. 21 resignation to give professors “time to settle,” according to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan. Kirby, who is in the final months of his tenure as dean, ended yesterday’s letter with a hopeful look to the future. “The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the University are longer-lived than any of us as individuals,” he wrote...
...interactions that occurred in private and that they don’t want described in the press. “The problem is that many people have felt that it will not be good for Harvard if we wash dirty linen in public,” said Judith L. Ryan, the Weary professor of Germanic literatures and languages, and the sponsor of the no-confidence resolution that the full Faculty would have voted on at its cancelled meeting Tuesday. “But because of our wish to protect the institution,” Ryan added...
...Ryan Rourke...
...priorities—Harvard will stagnate. So where does that leave us? Administrators can be uninformed and inflexible, and faculties can be self-interested and shortsighted. I don’t want Summers writing the syllabi for new Harvard courses, but I don’t want Professor Judith Ryan allotting space in Allston either. Let us hope that the Corporation selects a candidate who recognizes both the seat’s limitations and its possibilities, who doesn’t shy away from engaging the faculty, but takes care to choose only those battles that are critical...
...which he would have faced the second no-confidence motion of his career. In the first vote, held last March, the Faculty of Arts and Science voted a lack of confidence in Summers by a margin of 218-185. Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, who had proposed the second no-confidence motion, cautioned against overextending the national influence of Summers’ resignation. “There is no reason to start imagining a rash of copy-cat motions,” she wrote in an e-mail yesterday. Krauss said he was driven...