The first African-American dean of Harvard and the first female dean of Harvard, Evelynn Hammonds, recently resigned as dean of the prestigious school after a cheating scandal. The cheating scandal which suspended 60 students and placed 60 others on a disciplinary probation after an investigation into cheating on a take-home exam on a government class. Hammonds was under heavy fire due to here drastic actions during the investigation. She authorized the scanning of the subject lines of 16 faculty members emails. She apologized to the faculty last month. Hammonds will be remaining on staff as a professor.
In my opinion the scanning of the subject lines of emails was both, not as big of a deal that the faculty and the press make it out to be, and that the scanning was entirely pointless. The scanning was done to find evidence towards the cheating under suspicion that a faculty was behind the cheating. At an ivy league school you can't expect an email that has any regard to cheating to have a subject line that suggests that they are cheating. So in my opinion Evelynn Hammonds took an unnecessary step in trying to solve the mystery.
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