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...their size or prestige, is a demand for new, quality faculty members. While this is an innocent enough request, the brunt of the departments’ pressure falls on the junior faculty to produce academic work worthy of tenure. Faculty members say that this is an inherent part of academia, but at Harvard this pressure is magnified. Though tenure is certainly a generic debate not unique to Harvard, there is always some “tenseness surrounding the fact that the future for junior faculty is uncertain,” Buell says. “If you?...
Pressure to publish is an inherent part of the job description for junior faculty. Publishing has become such an integral part of academia that Professor of French History Patrice Higonnet says that there is a joke about it among academics...
...library. Trying as best I could to take the moment home with me, I used my entire role of film shooting the silly pseudo-medieval architecture. It was grandiose and slightly cheesy—it was a church built for students looking to worship the gods and goddesses of academia. It was wonderful and I was in love with Yale, convinced that their strong English department and this library with its gargoyles—not angry dragons but students hunched over their books—would foster the kind of college experience I was planning to have. Bygones. I chose...
...example, on Nov. 12, The New York Times reported that officials from the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) are quietly checking up on Middle Eastern students at more than 200 college campuses nationwide. School administrators are calling this canvass of the halls of academia the most severe since the Cold War. In addition to asking “what subjects the students are studying, whether they are performing well and where they are living,” investigators are also interviewing students, sometimes repeatedly, about everything from favorite local restaurants to their plans after graduation...
...There are definitely times during which the natural conflict between wanting to be a good teacher and having deadline for my dissertation arises. The two are often difficult to juggle, but it is a conflict inherent in all academia,” says Matthew D. Lundin, a TF in the history department...