In a statement, Faculty of Arts and Sciences deans Michael Smith and Evelyn Hammonds said complaints over the search were fair.
In an email to members of the university, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael Smith said the cases had now been resolved.
After we made the decision that first night, I wrote an e-mail to two mentors, Bill Kirby, then dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Gregg Stone, managing partner of Kestrel Venture Management, informing them of my plans.
In an open letter to Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the university said it searched the email after two leaks from Harvard's Administrative Board, which was overseeing the cheating probe, led to concerns that student information was at risk.
"Consequently, with the approval of the dean of FAS (Faculty of Arts and Sciences) and the University General Counsel, and the support of the dean of Harvard College, a very narrow, careful, and precise subject-line search was conducted by the University's IT department, " they added.
The media and much of the Duke arts faculty had trumpeted the case as an example of how wealthy white men abuse their power over poor black women.
The dean of the arts faculty at the university was suspended for opposing the student's arrest.
Low student-faculty ratios are a benefit of small, liberal arts colleges.
Casey Gollan, a senior in the arts school, said various groups of alumni, students and faculty who have opposed charging for tuition are now meeting to think of ways to stop the board's decision including legal action.
Members of the humanities faculty were upset that Stanford proposed to create a second campus without including liberal-arts faculty or students.
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