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...Summers?? second legacy is the expansion of Harvard’s presence in the life sciences. In the late 1990s, Stanford and MIT, not Harvard, were the leading technology incubators of the computer era. The strength of these universities, relative to our own, rose steadily over the past 50 years as they dominated the last technological revolution while Harvard stood by. Summers saw that for Harvard to keep its preeminence the University must play a more central role in the current biology-centered technological revolution. To that end, he championed initiatives like the Broad Institute and the Harvard...
...that are currently being made at the University concern the planning of our vast new campus in Allston. By the 1990s, community opposition had essentially shut down any new construction in Cambridge. If the University is to grow, that growth must occur across the river. The inevitable consequence of Summers?? belief in undergraduates and the life sciences is that much of the new campus will be devoted to expanding life sciences and improving undergraduate life. Summers coupled that vision with an increasing understanding of community-building. He championed new housing for graduate students so that Allston would thrive...
...Corporation faces the future, it should choose a President with greater skill as a leader of academics and with Summers?? vision for Harvard’s future. The easy road towards retrenchment and consensus-based leadership will not make Harvard stronger. The next president must not only calm the waters, but also make hard decisions that will sadly, but inevitably, cause some resentment. But Harvard is not just a worker’s cooperative run for the faculty of one particular school. The Corporation must support decisions that put the needs of all of the University?...
...highest governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) yesterday cancelled the Faculty’s scheduled Feb. 28 meeting—which initially had two motions challenging University President Lawrence H. Summers?? leadership on the docket—in the wake of Summers?? resignation Tuesday.The Faculty Council cancelled the meeting to give Faculty members “time to settle” after Summers?? resignation, said Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, a member of the Council.The Faculty will have a “non-regular?...
...today: Leon Botstein of Bard University has been a vigorous spokesperson on a variety of issues for many years, and Shirley M. Tilghman has already put a distinctive mark on Princeton University in a much shorter period of time.This is neither the time nor the place to comment on Summers?? tenure; it will take some time to sort out his contributions. But the turmoil at the University during recent times should not blind us to the possibility of effective, decisive leadership at our great universities. Howard E. Gardner ’65 is Hobbs Professor of Cognition...