Harvard Ethics: An Oxymoron

[Amber G.]

<!--QuoteBegin-Amber G.+Feb 26 2006, 05:18 AM-->QUOTE(Amber G. @ Feb 26 2006, 05:18 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Summers  is still the president, and will remain the president for some time (end of June) ;  and even later, he will  keep his post as a  full (tenured) professor in Harvard.  Most likely   they do not have to change anything ...
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FYI according to news item:Harvard Pesident Summers in India<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Soon, Harvard to have India as a subject
Kounteya Sinha
[ Wednesday, March 22, 2006 01:25:22 am TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

NEW DELHI: America’s oldest institution of higher learning, Harvard University, will soon have India as a subject.
And teachers will include visiting faculty members like Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Gardiner professor of history at
Harvard Sugata Bose and Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna.
In an exclusive interview to TOI , Harvard University's outgoing president, Lawrence Summers, said: "Like people study
political science, culture, public health, economics, law and medicine, students in Harvard will now study India as a
subject."
"We are working hard towards building a programme especially on India, the subcontinent and South Asia studies. We
want to strengthen and increase our knowledge the country, which is fast becoming a super-power."
Summers is a renowned economist who was the treasury secretary under Bill Clinton.
In Delhi after having travelled to Rajasthan and Agra, Summers — who will deliver the Golden Jubilee celebration lecture
of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Wednesday — said he would discuss with his peers on his return to US
about India’s tremendous emergence as an economic power.
Summers will also seek ways to deepen the connection between Harvard and Indian universities. Summers received his
bachelor’s degree in economics at MIT in 1975 and PhD at Harvard in 1982.
He was appointed president of the university in 2001, making him only the second MIT teacher to become Harvard
president.
But it was his candour and brute honesty that some say cost him the job.
His January 14 address that supposedly suggested that women have less aptitude than men in science and maths
received a lot of flak leading to a vote of no-confidence against him by the faculty of arts and sciences, Harvard’s largest
division.
Following this, Summers resigned from his chair.
He will remain president till June 30 following which he will serve as a professor in Harvard. Derek Bok, the university’s
president from 1971 to 1991, will serve as interim president.
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