Harvard Kennedy School Dean Doug Elmendorf says the school will look for other ways to learn “failures of government.”

Following former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s announcement that he was backing out of a Kennedy School fellowship due to the backlash over his role in the Flint water crisis, Elmendorf sent an email Wednesday to the school’s community on the decision.

Harvard announced Snyder’s fall fellowship last Friday with the promise that the 60-year-old Republican could share his “expertise in management, public policy, and promoting civility” with their students. However, following objections from students, faculty, and Flint residents, Elmendorf wrote that both sides “now believe that having him on campus would not enhance education here in the ways we intended.”


Read the full email below: