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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - In his five-year tenure at Harvard University, President Lawrence H. Summers frequently found himself in the spotlight because of rifts with faculty at the Ivy League institution.
Shortly after he took office, a handful of prominent black studies professors, including Cornel West, left the university after a dispute with him. Last year, he was widely criticized for suggesting that innate ability may partly explain why few women reach top science posts.
Tuesday, facing the second no-confidence vote by faculty members in a year, Summers announced he would leave June 30, bringing to a close the briefest tenure of any Harvard president since 1862, when Cornelius Felton died after two years in office.
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