Harvard University dean Evelynn M. Hammonds will step down on July 1. Hammonds approved a secret search of 16 deans’ email accounts to track down a media leak about student cheating. Harvard admitted to the Boston Globe that it secretly gained access to the email accounts of the resident deans but that it was necessary to safeguard the privacy of students involved in a 2012 cheating scandal. The deans emphasized that only the subject lines, not the content of the emails, were searched and read: “No one’s emails were opened and the contents of no ones emails were searched””]