Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School.
Harvard has apparently concluded its review of its relationship to the convicted child sex offender, Jeffrey E. Epstein. In September 2019, after expressing that he âprofoundly regret[s]â Harvardâs association with Epstein, University President Lawrence S. Bacow promised âto review how we prevent these situations in the future.â In May 2020, the University released a report completing the first steps of that review. The report found Harvard had taken no money from Epstein after his conviction, though there were further questions that merited study. Two weeks ago, after completing that study, Harvard determined to shutter the research center Epsteinâs money had founded, and âdisciplin[e]â its academic director.
The end seems near. Hazy, but near.
After over a yearâs worth of awkward Zoom silences and tops-only dress codes, a return to normal, face-to-face interaction is the closest it has been since the pandemicâs onset. Vaccination rates across America are rising rapidly, allowing for cautious optimism: a timid hope that we might soon go back to our simultaneously riveting and mundane in-person lives.
Harvard also seems optimistic: Two weeks ago, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay announced that the FAS expects âa full return to campus,â complete with in-person learning, for College students in the fall of 2021.
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“I was concerned that we weren’t going to make it through the semester,” Grundmeier said.
In December 2019, Grundmeier and his wife University of Massachusetts professor Anne Fitzpatrick welcomed their second child, Peter. Their five-year-old daughter, Catherine, was attending pre-kindergarten.
On March 8, 2020, Grundmeier and Fitzpatrick pulled their daughter out of school due to increasing concern surrounding Covid-19. Just two days later, on March 10, Harvard announced that all classes would transition online for the remainder of the semester.
In the days that followed, Harvard operations transitioned online. While faculty adapted in-person instruction ranging from lab work to roundtable seminars to Zoom, the pandemic also forced them to adapt their personal lives to accommodate an increased load of work and home responsibilities.
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