News of former Harvard president’s resignation comes ‘in connection with ongoing review’ of Epstein files

🎶Another one bites the dust! 🎶

Larry Summers, former president of Harvard University, will resign from teaching at the end of the academic year, a spokesperson confirmed to the Guardian.

The news of his formal resignation comes “in connection with the ongoing review by the University of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that were recently released by the government”, a Harvard spokesperson, Jason Newton, said in a statement.

Summers also resigned from his role as co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, a position he has held since 2011, according to the spokesperson. He will remain on leave until the end of the academic year.

The news was first reported by the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper.

Summers, a renowned economist and former US treasury secretary, announced in November 2025 that he would stop teaching while the school conducted its investigation.

  • spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org
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    11 days ago

    He will remain on leave until the end of the academic year.

    he’s getting the “cop who shot a kid in the back” treatment - they’re still fucking paying him.

    not only is this too little, too late, they’re giving him what amounts to a 6-month paid vacation.