Massachusetts Hall, Harvard University
[From article]
“It seems to me that trust has to be based on something,” said classics professor Richard F. Thomas, a member of the Faculty Council. “The request that you make that we have trust suggests there aren’t consequences from this past case that go beyond saying simply, ‘Let’s all talk and get along together.’”
Pointing to faculty’s hesitance in the meeting to address the issue, a number of professors said the case illustrates a larger communication problem between faculty and increasingly distant administrators.
“As the size of the administration has grown over the past 10 to 15
years... it has inevitably produced a sense of unhelpful distance
between the administrative decision-making process and the faculty who
are affected by it,” said History of Art and Architecture professor
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, a member of the Faculty Council. He likened the
experience of trying to speak with administrators about certain issues
to “waiting to get an audience with Louis XIV in Versailles.”
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/4/2/email-searches-second-round/
Revelation of Second Round of Email Searches Contradicts
Administrators' Previous Statement
Smith and Hammonds Apologize for Handling of Searches at Faculty Meeting
By NICHOLAS P. FANDOS,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
April 2, 2013
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