Harvard President Ousted

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The student body supported Larry Summers but so what, higher education is mostly about faculty, isn’t it?


Harvard says Summers resigns as president
Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:29 PM ET

By Jason Szep

BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University President Lawrence Summers resigned on Tuesday after a turbulent five years and the most public faculty rebellion against a Harvard president in the Ivy League school's 370 year history.

Summers, a former U.S. Treasury secretary under president Bill Clinton, will step down at the end of the 2005-06 academic year, Harvard said. Derek Bok, who led Harvard from 1971 to 1991, will be interim president from July 1. Summers will stay on as a professor.

The resignation caps an increasingly rancorous stand-off between Summers and disaffected Harvard staff and came just one week before faculty members were to vote in the second no-confidence motion against Summers in 11 months.

Summers, whose brusque management style has won both praise and contempt, sparked controversy last year when he said innate differences between men and women may help explain why so few women work in the academic sciences.

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STUDENT BACKING

The announcement followed a poll showing most Harvard students backed Summers even if, as one student put it, he "can be a little rough around the edges."

In the poll conducted at the weekend by Harvard's Crimson student newspaper, 57 percent of 424 undergraduate students said Summers should not resign.

"I know the faculty hates him, but I think he's kind of running Harvard like a business -- and I respect that," one student, Derek Horton, told the student newspaper.

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Source: http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-02-21T212916Z_01_N21159889_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-HARVARD.xml


Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

[warpedskydiver 0]

That's what the professors would like you to believe it's all about them, and their pulpit to preach from.

[kallend 2,150]

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The student body supported Larry Summers but so what, higher education is mostly about faculty, isn’t it?

Do you know the difference between kids and grown-ups? How many 18-22 year olds are trusted to make critical decisions on the administration in your workplace?

Just last week folks on here were criticizing college students for their stupidity.
www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2083470#2083470

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[warpedskydiver 0]

do the 18-22yr olds in your workplace pay your salary john?

[kallend 2,150]

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do the 18-22yr olds in your workplace pay your salary john?

No.

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[peacefuljeffrey 0]

"Harvard President Ousted"

Damn! One letter different and this coulda been another obscenely funny and enjoyable GAY thread!

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-Jeffrey
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[rasmack 0]

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"Harvard President Ousted"

Damn! One letter different and this coulda been another obscenely funny and enjoyable GAY thread!

(running with that ball)

I heard PJ say that the Harvard president is gay!

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do the 18-22yr olds in your workplace pay your salary john?

John's point may be that undergrads are hardly qualified to judge a president/chancellor.

I remember Chancellor Tien (at Cal) best for restablishing support for the Div I sports. He'd come to the football games and make a fool of himself cheering. We liked him for it. His demise came in the midst of the affirmative action bills, and over the increase in student fees. Neither were really under his control, though some student groups attacked him for it.