From the Harvard Crimson: A group of faculty members is pressing Harvard’s top brass to overhaul how it investigates professors, raising concerns that current procedures lack basic safeguards and could expose faculty to unfair or overly opaque disciplinary processes. The effort, led by a working group within the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard, has gained momentum in recent months as faculty examine investigations that have unfolded across the University...
“We are concerned that some investigations have failed to adhere to reasonable standards of due process and that this threatens academic freedom,” University Professor Eric S. Maskin, a co-president of CAFH, wrote in a statement...
Last fall, the University launched a probe into former University President Lawrence H. Summers, just months before his dramatic resignation. And mathematics professor Martin Nowak was placed on paid administrative leave by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Faculty Conduct Committee pending a formal investigation. (The FCC is a two-year pilot committee that reviews professional conduct concerns that do not fall under Non-Discrimination and Anti-Bullying procedures). The University has also conducted several less public — but also scrutinized — internal investigations into Harvard faculty in recent years, including Anthropology professor John L. Comaroff, Economics professor Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Geology professor Daniel P. Schrag, and HKS Lecturer Marshall L. Ganz ’64...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/4/17/cafh-faculty-investigations/.
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