Boston Globe: Harvard board moves to quell new dispute
A week after Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers announced that he would resign because of differences with faculty, the university’s governing board took unusually strong action to temper a dispute between a dean and some professors trying to remove him.
James R. Houghton, the senior member of the Harvard Corporation, yesterday sent an e-mail to the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, expressing the board’s ”strong support” for the embattled dean, Alan Altshuler. Houghton said Derek Bok, who will take over as Harvard’s interim president in July, would meet with the faculty and the dean next week to help resolve the situation.
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