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Well before this hellish week for Summers, the embattled president had already come under fire from faculty who objected to the dearth of tenure appointments offered to women under his watch. In the 2003-2004 school year, just 4 of 32 Faculty of Arts and Sciences tenure offers were to women...
Ringer, who makes semiannual trips to Vietnam with a California-based nonprofit called Project Vietnam, says that he and other American doctors were immediately struck by the dearth of respiratory assistance equipment in the country’s neonatal units...
...extended break—a combination of winter break, intersession and more. Even the busiest of Harvard students could use a forced time out. Meanwhile, this time would also allow for the College to offer optional, non-credit travel and research opportunities to students who so choose. Given the dearth of existing Harvard-sponsored international options, this ad hoc plan makes the most practical sense by far. Cost would be less of an issue right away, professors would have their vacations and students would have their term-time classes. In addition, on the administrative side, the focus...
Intriguing sign of the times or symptom of Broadway's creative poverty? Let's just say that in an era of soaring costs and a dearth of new plays with any assurance of drawing an audience, it's a perfectly logical commercial development. With only one salaried actor and minimal sets and costumes (unless you are Dame Edna), those shows are cheaper to produce than full-scale plays. "You've got a lot less risk with a one-person show and pretty much the same opportunity to make money," says Jay Larkin, an executive producer at Showtime, responsible for Cantone...
Many professors say that specific departments’ hiring processes, misperceptions about the culture at Harvard, and the difficulties of uprooting women with families has led to a dearth of female senior faculty in the sciences...