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Faust’s friends and colleagues expect that instead of emulating Summers?? speech, she will broaden her scope and focus on Harvard’s leadership role in higher education, and the responsibilities that come with...
...serves our world,” Summers declared that Harvard could “press on to find more financial aid, more ways to support those who commit themselves to service.”Eventually, Harvard may become practically free for most students. While budgetary constraints may have restrained Summers?? vision in the short term, it seems likely that Harvard is wealthy enough to support such a plan in the long term. But the College will likely stop there: even if Harvard is wealthy enough to fully support all of its students, it’s not likely...
...years after Rudenstine’s decision, the issue of tenure remains a hot topic among junior faculty. In 2004 then-University President Lawrence H. Summers?? refusal to tenure Marcyliena Morgan—the resident hip-hop scholar of Harvard’s African and African American Studies Department—led to her departure as well as that of her renowned sociologist husband, Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo. After interim President Derek C. Bok approved a tenure offer for Morgan last spring, University President Drew...
...editorial “Squashing Summers?? (Sept. 20) admits that Lawrence H. Summers “was not a perfect president” of Harvard but excoriates the hundreds of University of California (UC) faculty who objected to his planned talk to the UC Board of Regents as representing “the worst of academia.” Chair Richard Blum invited Summers to address a private dinner for the Regents, and then retracted the invitation after faculty objected...
More generally, the quashing of Summers?? speech points to a troubling trend in academia. Increasingly, the unrestricted marketplace of ideas that must form the heart of any university worth the name is being poisoned by a perverse pressure to conform truth to political agenda and stifle any speaker who espouses uncomfortable or invonveneint opinions. In the present case, the culprits are academics who fashion themselves as progressives eager for social justice and tolerance, but the other side of the political spectrum is no less guilty in others. This situation is alarming and dangerous. If academic freedom cannot exist...