Revolt at Case Western

by E Wayne Ross on March 2, 2006

Inside Higher Ed: Revolt at Case Western

If the Harvard University faculty can rise up, why not other faculties?

That was the idea that inspired a professor at Case Western Reserve University to send out an e-mail to his colleagues the day after Lawrence H. Summers announced that he would quit the presidency at Harvard. “Yesterday we learned from Harvard … that faculty can ultimately take appropriate responsibility for responding to severe problems in university governance,” wrote Lawrence Krauss, in calling for a vote of no confidence in Case’s president, Edward M. Hundert.