Harvard Dean Who Handled E-Mail Searches to Step Down
Source: NYT
The undergraduate dean at Harvard will step down this summer, she and the university announced on Tuesday, months after she came under fire for her handling of a search of some junior faculty members e-mail accounts.
Evelynn M. Hammonds, the first woman and the first African-American to be dean of Harvard College, will leave that post on July 1 after five years, but she will remain on the faculty, the university said in a statement posted online. She will lead a new program on race and gender in science and medicine, topics that have been at the core of her scholarly work for decades.
I was never asked to step down, Ms. Hammonds said. I have been in discussions to return to academia and my research for some time.
Harvard disclosed last summer that well over 100 students were suspected of cheating on a take-home exam, the largest such scandal in memory. As the Administrative Board looked into the cases and the students guilt or innocence dozens of them were forced to take a leave from the college elements of the investigation, which was supposed to be confidential, were reported by The Harvard Crimson.
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