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...This entire process occurs in a shroud of secrecy. Outside professors entering at the tenure level may not even know that they are being considered for a position. Regardless, Casey notes that professors who are eminent enough to be seriously considered generally have an idea that Harvard is looking at them before they receive an offer. “At that level,” he says, “it’s difficult not to know...
...vote of confidence Harvard does not make lightly. Harvard’s highest official is alone endowed with the power to bestow a full professorship, the sole tenured position at Harvard. “The most important aspect of President Faust’s job,” says Casey, “Is that she chooses the future faculty of Harvard...
...strained junior faculty. "Now when people are hired at the junior level, they’re on a path that guarantees at couldn’t recruit the strongest junior faculty if it was widely thought that they had no chance for tenure,” says Casey, although he adds that “now we’re much more overt about...
...Casey notes that with recent changes in those top positions—including the President, Dean of the College, and Dean of FAS—a bit of a lull should be expected. But despite the potential for a temporary drop in new appointments, the University’s newest officials appear excited to improve the basic tenets of the system...
...baseball history. Not just bad, but theatrically bad, Paris Hilton bad: hilariously awful. We Mets fans became connoisseurs of baseball perversity. I was sitting in the stands the day Marvelous Marv Throneberry hit a triple and was called out for missing second base. The Mets manager, the extremely antique Casey Stengel, wobbled out to protest but was told by the umpire not to push it too hard. Marvelous Marv had missed first base...