Bacow to step down as Harvard's president after five years

Image:  Lawrence S. Bacow, who led Harvard University through the pandemic and spent more than 50 years studying, teaching at and presiding over three major universities in the Boston area, announced Wednesday that he would step down as Harvard’s president next summer. “There is never a good time to leave a job like this one, but now seems right to me,” Bacow said in a prepared statement. “Through our collective efforts, we have found our way through the pandemic. We have worked...