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Spangler added that he felt Summers’ immediate successor, former University president Derek C. Bok, would steer the University well in the interim...
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...not.Ellison, who is on leave this year, said he has no plans to attend the upcoming Faculty meeting on Feb. 28 where Summers will face a new no-confidence motion.‘SERIOUSLY WRONG’Ellison recommends that colleagues steer clear of serving as a dean under Summers.“Bill Kirby is an extraordinary administrator,” Ellison said yesterday. “For him not to flourish in the role of dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences indicates that something is seriously wrong.”The Crimson reported that Summers forced...
...1996.Under the proposal presented at yesterday’s Faculty Council meeting, professors might become decision-makers—rather than advisers—in the dean search process.Such a proposal would take away the president’s power to use his dean selections as a way to steer the University’s course. But, according to some Harvard historians, that was a power that presidents never actually held.“Presidents think they will be able to shape the University through their appointments,” Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who teaches...
...matter of principle, the government should not be making normative value judgments about the relative merit of specific fields of study. To declare some skills more important than others and steer the population accordingly threatens the right of American citizens to choose their majors and occupations. At the center of a democratic government is the notion of liberty and choice— the liberty to say what one wishes, to believe what one wishes, to profess what one wishes—all without fear of governmental reproach. In that vein, this legislation should not have the power to effectively make...