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...careers tend to peak a bit later than men's careers" because of family responsibilities. Many at Harvard were upset last spring when Summers rejected a tenure recommendation for Marcyliena Morgan, a scholar of hip-hop in the African and African-American studies department, prompting her to leave for Stanford. Some Harvard women are worried that Summers' comments will make recruitment of top female faculty even tougher. Candidates for teaching, says physics professor Melissa Franklin, "do consider the feeling among other female faculty at the university...
Some are still holding out: Stanford University is still considering the restrictions and the American Civil Liberties Union has rejected the grants outright...
Last April, Hyman, along with provosts from the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Princeton and Cornell, sent the foundations a letter protesting the potential infringement on academic freedom posed by the new language. Several of the universities then moved ahead in talks with officials at Ford on compromise language to eliminate some of the most objectionable wording...
...Stanford obviously has a different position, and if you’re Stanford you’d hope none of us had settled,” Hyman says. But “when you read that language, it’s hard to know what we should still be complaining about...
...while most schools have settled, Stanford is still holding out. Stanford “continues to study” the new language, according to Kate Chesley, Stanford’s associate director of university communications...