{"id":21191,"date":"2023-12-26T13:44:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T18:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=21191"},"modified":"2023-12-26T13:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T18:44:24","slug":"harvard-faculty-appeal-to-the-universitys-board-members-to-address-growing-concerns-in-more-direct-manner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/harvard-faculty-appeal-to-the-universitys-board-members-to-address-growing-concerns-in-more-direct-manner\/21191\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard faculty appeal to the university\u2019s board members to address growing concerns in more direct manner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the key members of Harvard\u2019s faculty and the university\u2019s top governing held a meeting last week to discuss discuss the unprecedented problems at one of the most prestigious universities in the States.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard faces many problems: rising antisemitism on campus and the university\u2019s controversial response to it, president Claudine Gay\u2019s ongoing scandal of plagiarism, plunging applications and an affirmative action ruling from the Supreme Court that leaves the university with an uncertain future.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, first reported by the New York Times, included Jeff Flier, a former dean of Harvard Medical School, and Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, among two other faculty. The members had a rather frank and cordial discussion with Tracy Palandjjian, founder of nonprofit and private equity Paul Finnegan, who are both members of the Harvard Faculty.<\/p>\n<p>Flier has urged the members of the university at the top to address the challenges faced by the institution in a more direct manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people are saying the university is making mistakes \u2013 they are talking about you!\u201d said Flier to the corporation members. The quote was first provided to the New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the key members of Harvard\u2019s faculty and the university\u2019s top governing held a meeting last week to discuss\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":21208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6497],"class_list":["post-21191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-harvard-university"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}