Summers Resigns as Harvard President

WaPo: "Lawrence Summers, the embattled president of Harvard University, resigned today after a tumultuous year during which he repeatedly clashed with the faculty at one of the nation's oldest and more prestigious schools.His resignation takes effect at the end of the academic year. Former president Derek Bok will serve as interim president of the university from July 1 until a new president is appointed, according to Harvard's Web site. Harvard University President Lawrence Summers faces reporters as he departs a faculty meeting at Harvard, in Cambridge, Mass., in this March 15, 2005, file photo, taken after the school's Faculty of Arts and Sciences passed a no-confidence vote against him. Harvard University announced Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006, on its website that Summers will resign as president at the end of the current academic year. Summers's announcement comes after several weeks of inflamed rhetoric by his opponents on the faculty, incensed by the way he handled the dismissal of Arts and Sciences Dean William Kirby, and one week before a scheduled full faculty meeting on a vote of no confidence in his leadership."