tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116442395849122822.post6885791256369859349..comments2024-03-12T14:31:50.264-07:00Comments on Bits and Pieces: Can the great American universities take root in Asia?Harry Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088418333536732728noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116442395849122822.post-57945875275758857822013-08-12T14:36:49.962-07:002013-08-12T14:36:49.962-07:00This is not a hard concept to master if you read w...This is not a hard concept to master if you read what I said. When you become a university president, you sacrifice some of your freedom of speech, because you are no longer speaking for yourself, you are speaking for your institution -- even if you explicitly say, as Summers did, that you are not speaking in your role as president. When you are president, you no longer get to say "I don't care what they think," because what you say sticks to your institution, and it is your job to care what they think of your university. Harry Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17088418333536732728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116442395849122822.post-91550318819729559522013-08-12T12:47:47.595-07:002013-08-12T12:47:47.595-07:00"For a university ... giving up the right to ..."For a university ... giving up the right to political expression means giving up the pursuit of the truth"<br /><br />says a perennial critic of Larry Summers who has stated on this blog that it was wrong for Summers to make his comments about gender and science while serving as president of Harvard. Lewis is selective in his defense of free expression.<br />Quanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01331772613078493504noreply@blogger.com