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...curriculum and improve the quality of undergraduate life. He wanted to hold faculty accountable for their teaching. Some faculty faulted him for playing too central a role in the curricular review, and some faculty resented being told (fairly or unfairly) that they weren’t living up to Summers?? standards. Whatever the case, most students felt that Summers had their interests at heart and was working intensely to make Harvard better for them...
...Summers?? “correct visions” for Harvard and his laudable commitment to freshman seminars do not by themselves give him, as president of Harvard, the license to act inappropriately to faculty members...
...attractive to students from all socioeconomic backgrounds. Under his leadership, the College adopted a new financial aid policy that guaranteed that parents with less than $40,000 of income will not have to pay anything to send their children to Harvard. Students from middle income families also benefited from Summers?? policies, though there is still much to be done on the issue of financial aid and access...
...even endorse his style of leadership, I wonder if the majority of those recently polled failed to call for his resignation because they are unaware of what the College was like prior to his assuming the presidency. I witnessed the nearly immediate, if often subtle, transformation of Harvard during Summers?? tenure. The hostility he engendered in the Faculty affected opportunities for undergraduates almost immediately as some professors made swift exits. Moreover, none of the College’s greatest accomplishments during the past five years—the creation of a new office to centralize responses...
Surely, The Crimson’s editors are not suggesting that two former deans under Harvard’s justly famous FAS are “second rate” and deserving of Mr. Summers?? open disdain? Allow me to suggest that your president’s behavior towards them and others is quite uncivilized...