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...career at an institution, Harvard makes a point of not favoring its own faculty in tenure decisions. "When someone is up for tenure, the standard and procedure is exactly the same as it is when the department is searching for senior scholars elsewhere,” says Brian W. Casey, associate dean for faculty affairs...
...Another school may hasten the departure of a promising young professor by offering a great deal such as an associate tenured position. “Harvard is probably the ripest place to pick scholars from,” says Casey...
...time from when you start a search to a person showing up in a classroom can be about three years,” says Casey. “For a small department to conduct a senior search the process can be extraordinarily arduous and take an enormous amount of time. There’s a limit to the capacity of a faculty to search.” And the time spent recruiting faculty may take away from the academic pursuits of the members of search committees...
...regulation cited Harvard and its $35-billion endowment as an example of soaring university wealth being nonetheless accompanied by continuing tuition increases. Harvard’s tuition rose 3.9 percent for this academic year, while the endowment posted a 23 percent gain in the most recent fiscal year. Kevin Casey, senior director of federal and state relations for Harvard, took issue with the idea that Washington should regulate how universities spend their vast endowment incomes. “The most highly endowed colleges are in fact the ones doing the most to support affordability among the individuals that go there...
...federal government expanded funding between 1998 and 2003 but in the past four years, funding has been static, the University’s senior director of federal and state relations, Kevin Casey, told the Crimson in an interview last spring...