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...Summers?? major points regarded the decrease in social mobility and the importance of Harvard’s role in expanding opportunities for lower- and middle-class students...
Noting the College’s recent financial aid initiative—which, under Summers?? leadership, has eliminated the parental contribution for families with incomes below $60,000 per year—Summers said that financial aid has become a “University-wide” initiative...
Summers may have garnered the greatest reaction from the audience when he referenced the University’s advancements in stem cell research. Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute was founded under Summers?? watch...
...President to fund its undergraduate life initiatives.Summers has used his office’s discretionary funds to contribute money to College concerts, House renovations, and more recently, the construction of a campus pub in Loker Commons and a café in Lamont Library.“President Summers?? interest in undergraduate life and his direct support of campus events—events that would have otherwise not been possible—has certainly helped to raise awareness that these are important issues,” writes Zachary A Corker ’04, special assistant to Gross...
...Arts and Sciences (FAS), which functions, or suffers, under the president’s authority far more than the schools of law, business, and medicine. Yet I was also goaded by complaints from the schools of education and public health, University Health Services staff, and minority students generally. Summers?? selective respect for disciplines, persons, and the truth itself inspired mistrust far and wide.Harvard professors are hardly, as a rule, sticklers for “exquisite sensitivity to minority issues.” In 1988, Yiddish literature professor Ruth R. Wisse described the Palestinians as “people...