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Harvard's crucible: a question of academic freedom, and meritocracy, and sense.(HIGHER EDUCATION)(battle between Harvard president Larry Summers and the university's Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
The battle between Harvard president Larry Summers and the university's Faculty of Arts and Sciences reached a climax on March 15, when 218 members of the faculty voted that they "lacked confidence" in his leadership, with 185 opposed and 18 abstentions. A second resolution expressed "regret" about Summers's "mid-January statements about women in science and the adverse consequences of those statements for individuals and for Harvard," and about "aspects of the President's managerial approach." Only 137 faculty members voted nay on that one, and 253 supported it. In the end, then, almost two out of three condemned Summers for his expressed views, his leadership style, or ...
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