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...debatable. Harvard’s president has a hand in every tenure offer the University extends; our next president must understand the importance of this power. Weighing these other factors will be one of the most critical judgments that he or she will have to make. We find two criteria that are particularly undervalued in the current system. The first is a candidate’s teaching ability. The second is the need to hire professors whose academic specialties are underrepresented at the University...
...indicates how well those who did apply did compared with other applicants in our pool.” As for Golden’s accusations of stereotyping, McGrath Lewis denies it occurs: “It would be incorrect to say that our Committee reviews Asian-American students by criteria different from those we use for other applicants,” she writes. “Nor does our Committee operate on the stereotype that Asian-American students are ‘poorly rounded’. We have too much experience with students of all backgrounds to make that assumption...
...name list to the Corporation and the Board of Overseers when they met in December 2000. MASS. HALL MAKE-UPMost FAS professors on the advisory group declined to be interviewed for this article. But other faculty members who have consulted with the search committee often define their criteria for the next president in opposition to the characteristics of the last one. Mendelsohn said the shift in formally including faculty indicated the Corporation’s realization that “they flopped” in picking Summers in 2001. “When a governing board has to fire...
...William M. Polk, former headmaster of the Groton School, a boarding school in Massachusetts that traditionally sends a significant percent of students to Ivy League schools, saw the rise of the admissions industry first hand. Polk believes the high turnover rate among college admissions officers obscured previously straightforward admissions criteria.“There were people reviewing applications who didn’t really know the schools they were dealing with. They didn’t really know how to read the transcripts,” says Polk. This induced confusion about colleges’ expectations and, when coupled with...
...response, some of us choose to storm off in a pique of rage; others offer lofty bromides, fully aware of their inanity. All of us, however, are confounded, and perhaps vaguely offended. How dare this bourgeois challenge me to justify the humanities by vulgar utilitarian criteria? We pursue beauty, and to quote the French poet Theophile Gautier, “The most useful place in the house is the latrine...