Word: blackbourn
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...Blackbourn said graduate students were unlikely to compensate for the loss of faculty advisers...
...This is slightly more than usual,” said David Blackbourn, Coolidge Professor and chair of the history department, who is also one of the professors on leave next fall...
...Blackbourn said the departures were the result of a hiring spurt over the past few years of junior faculty members. Customarily, junior faculty members take sabbaticals after their third year at Harvard...
Visiting professors pose still another problem, Blackbourn said. The department has hired leading scholars, but because students may be unfamiliar with these professors, courses are more likely to be undersubscribed...
...departments say that the junior faculty are a self-selecting group who are self-motivated when it comes to pursuing tenure. “Mostly we tend to hire the kind of junior faculty who are extraordinarily talented and put a lot of pressure on themselves,” Blackbourn says. They have in common an enormous inner drive. The hiring of junior faculty is taken very seriously now because we’re hiring people who could be tenured down the road. They realize this...