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...most popular departments--Government, History, English and Economics--all have their fair share of famous names. Perhaps the best-known scholars come from the Government and Economics Departments, where the division between academia's Ivory Tower and the high-profile world of political advising often gets blurred...
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Questions concerning industry's role in academia took center stage at the Med School when it was disclosed that Sheffer C.G. Tseng, an ophthalmology fellow, had apparently acted unethically in his research. Tseng was found by the University to have exaggerated results of his experiments on a vitamin A treatment for dry-eye disease while owning substantial stock in the company that manufactures the drug...
...gift became highly publicized, however, the school reversed its stance. B-School officials offered Goodpaster two additional years on the faculty, after which he will again be eligible for tenure review. Goodpaster and school officials have since declined to discuss his extension, which is an unusual arrangement in academia...
...unusual way of tenuring faculty...The number of women who received Ph.Ds in the 1970s and 1960s was not high, and people who are tenured are senior in age. It takes a while for that pool to go through the system. I will be delighted when the workforce in academia is more evenly distributed. I think it will be beneficial for students and certainly beneficial for scholarship in general. I'm not knowledgeable enough about Harvard to know if it is an unusual problem here. One could say that if the system has this effect perhaps we should question...