Bright Day in Cambridge

February 22, 2006 by Marc Lamont Hill

Yesterday, Harvard president Larry Summers offered his resignation after an extremely rough five-year tenure that reached its low (or high) point last spring when the faculty gave him a vote of no confidence. As Richard Bradley details in his fabulous book, The Harvard Rules, Summers’ brash, manipulative, and technocratic managerial style alienated a large segment of the Harvard community and led to the attrition of many prominent scholars. Perhaps the most despicable example of Summers’ bull-in-a-china-shop approach was his mistreatment of Harvard’s world-class African American Studies department and, more specifically, Cornel West. Hopefully, the university will next find someone with a more democratic and inclusive vision of higher education.

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