Overview
- A petition led by the Harvard Feminist Coalition urges the university to strip Summers of tenure, with organizers saying hundreds have signed and a delivery to administrators is planned.
- Emails released by a congressional committee show Summers and Jeffrey Epstein exchanged messages through 2019, including Summers seeking romantic advice about a mentee.
- Summers has gone on leave from teaching and stepped back from several public roles, though he remains a tenured faculty member and has not resigned.
- Harvard launched a fresh review following the document release, expanding on a 2020 examination of Epstein’s donations and connections to the university.
- Revoking tenure would be highly unusual at Harvard, which recently took that step against professor Francesca Gino in a separate research-misconduct case.