CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 16 (UPI) -- Members of Harvard's powerful Faculty of Arts and Sciences have voted no confidence against President Lawrence Summers, the Boston Globe said.
By a secret ballot vote of 218-185, with 18 abstentions, the motion stating simply: "The Faculty lacks confidence in the leadership" was passed at the Cambridge, Mass., facility.
A second motion that offered a milder censure of the president passed 253-137, also with 18 abstentions.
Summers first came under fire in January when he said in a speech women might not have the same "intrinsic aptitude" in science as men.
While the faculty's votes have no official weight, the message is bound to be noticed by Harvard's governing corporation, which hires and fires the school's executive.
Summers attended the meeting, and said afterwards he had no intention of resigning.
"As I said to the faculty, I have done my best these last two months to hear all that has been said, to think hard, to learn, and to adjust," he said in a statement after the meeting. "I will continue to do that."
