"Academy chief to take time off amid inquiry" by Todd Wallack | Globe Staff, June 06, 2013
The embattled chief executive of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences plans to take time away from her responsibilities running the Cambridge honorary society while an outside law firm investigates reports that she has embellished her resume for at least a decade.
Related: Boorish Berlowitz
The academy announced Thursday that Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, who has overseen the scholarly institution for the past 17 years, has “requested time away from her day-to-day activities” while the Boston law firm of Choate Hall & Stewart conducts an independent inquiry into reports about her conduct....
A board spokesman declined to say whether Berlowitz will be paid while she takes time away or to say how long the inquiry might last....
James Miller, who worked as Daedalus editor for eight years under Berlowitz and now a professor and special adviser to the provost at the New School in New York City, said, “It’s about time that somebody called this bully to account.”
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