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Council members protested Summers??€™ management of several University initiatives, including development in Allston and what they perceived as a faltering curricular review...
...June 12 with a report detailing the efforts of her office.It will contain analyses of the composition of Harvard’s faculty, new childcare guidelines, and data from surveys of junior professors—all significant recommendations of the two faculty task forces created in the wake of Summers??€™ Jan. 2005 remarks on women in science, which produced pages of proposals to address the dearth of women and minorities in the sciences in two reports released last May.But some professors who have worked on the committees say the task of transforming an institution still reverberating with...
Members of the Caucus of Chairs say that the body, which began to meet in the spring of 2005 in response to concerns over Summers??€™ leadership, will reconvene in the fall...
...from those of its outgoing dean. The Faculty has addressed few of the critical problems facing undergraduate education in any meaningful way, including those of curricular reform and the need for better teaching. Instead, it spent much of the year focusing on the ouster of University President Lawrence H. Summers??€”the most undergraduate-friendly Harvard president in recent history—while at other times it had difficulty even attaining quorums at its meetings to discuss undergraduate matters.By this fall, all of the Harvard College Curricular Review’s (HCCR) committees had submitted their final reports?...
...tussles with a Faculty affronted by his leadership style. But during his tenure, Summers for a time did as the Corporation had hoped, using his pulpit to extend Harvard’s international reach, push for a more rigorous undergraduate curriculum, and endorse a bolder vision for Allston development. Summers??€™ roadmap for the University, professors and administrators say, will be completed by future Harvard presidents. In a way, Summers??€™ agenda is now the University’s. In this selection of articles, The Crimson delves into the ways in which Summers has attempted to mold Harvardt...