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...Part of the criteria for choosing these people was that they have a certain amount of adventure and strength," Malin says, adding he expects even more PRC applicants this year...
Using these criteria, the evidence about Reagan is at best mixed. He has clearly shown a capacity to grow and meet new challenges. One expert adviser says that Reagan's instincts are sound and his mind open to argument, but adds candidly that Reagan has difficulty seeing the connections between related problems and goals. An aide who is much closer to Reagan personally says, "He isn't dumb, but sometimes he has a lazy brain. He reads something, and it goes into the reservoir he has up there without checking. It comes out when he turns the spigot...
...secretive aspect of the system often gives the impression that decisions are made using unfair criteria--such as gender--particularly when departments recommend against promotion for their own associate professors. Because the "first order of eminence" guidelines are vague and because the senior faculty members who take part in departmental tenure votes discuss those decisions about as readily as the government provides top secret military information to the Kremlin, rejected junior faculty members often have only a hazy, idea of why their departments didn't want them. In the Skocpol decision, for example, James A. Davis, chairman of the Sociology...
...CRITERIA THEMSELVES, although they succeed in producing a high quality faculty, could become a major problem in the near future. Most departments operate now on the assumption that if they have a position available, they will be able to find a renowned scholar to fill it. That may become harder to do, however, as universities intensify their competition for top scholars; Harvard's allure may dimish in comparison with larger salaries, lighter teaching loads, and other tidbits competing universities might dangle before a sought-after professor...
...established academic and then invite him to join the Faculty? In the past, the latter has proven less risky. But as the academic marketplace for top scholars grows more intense, the scales may tip in favor of the junior faculty risk; and departments must alter their tenure policies and criteria accordingly...