May 25, 2001
Harvard Removes Head of Arts Program; Georgia Tech Sees Exodus of Humanities Professors
THE ART OF WAR: The rest of Harvard University barely noticed, but this spring, a firestorm swept through the department of visual and environmental studies. In March -- amid charges of absenteeism, mismanagement, and the verbal abuse of students by faculty members -- Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, asked for the resignation of Ellen Phelan as head of the department. Ms. Phelan, a painter who had joined the faculty in 1995 as an untenured professor of studio
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