Harvard University president says he will step down in 2023

(Reuters) – Harvard President Lawrence Bacow stated on Wednesday that he would go away his put up in June 2023 after serving to shepherd the nation’s oldest college via the COVID pandemic.

Bacow, 70, didn’t give a motive for his choice to step down however stated he and his spouse, Adele, could be spending extra time with their grandchildren.

“There’s by no means time to go away a job like this one, however now appears proper to me,” Bacow, the college’s twenty ninth president, stated in a letter to college students and workers.

Bacow attended Harvard as a graduate pupil within the Seventies and returned as president 5 years in the past after first serving in the identical job at Tufts College.

(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Modifying by Lisa Shumaker)