WP,pg1: Harvard Chief Again to Face Angry Faculty Over Remarks

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Harvard Chief Again to Face Angry Faculty Over Remarks

By Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 22, 2005; Page A01

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 21 -- In a rare second faculty meeting in a week, set for Tuesday afternoon, critics of Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers are expected to excoriate him again for his leadership style and recent remarks about women in science and engineering.

But the leader of the nation's oldest academic institution also retains a strong base of support among university officials and increasingly vocal groups of students, professors and former Washington colleagues whose counsel he has sought.

Conspicuous by their relative public silence during a month-long onslaught of criticism from within the university and beyond, many backers of the former Treasury secretary agree he made a major blunder at a Jan. 14 meeting of the National Bureau of Economic Research by referring to differences of "intrinsic aptitude" for science between men and women.

But they also point out that he has taken tangible steps -- such as creating two task forces on women in academia, meeting with students and faculty members, and apologizing at every opportunity -- that demonstrate his commitment to change....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42461-2005Feb21.html

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