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Founded in Lehman Hall in 1939, HUECU had its headquarters in the basement of Grays Hall—along with the Harvard University Police Department??€”before moving into the upper floors of the Holyoke Center following the Center’s completion...
...example, the Comparative Literature Department used the funds to finance graduate student research and trips to academic conferences, according to the department??€™s chair, William Mills Todd...
...that on ad hoc tenure committees—advisory committees that vet tenure candidates before the University president decides whether or not to grant the candidate tenure—Summers aggressively pushes his favored candidates over others and show favoritism towards certain subfields within a discipline, stifling a department??€™s ability to make its own appointments...
...University presidents have always had the sole power to grant tenure appointments. Though professors say they are not disputing Summers’ right to that power, they do say they want him to have less of an influence on which candidates are approved and show more respect for a department??€™s preferences...
...number of new tenured women faculty has dropped each year. Last year, only 12.5 percent of new tenured faculty were women. The crisis is especially severe in the fields of science and math. In Harvard’s history, only one woman has ever been tenured in the Chemistry Department??€”Richards Professor of Chemistry Cynthia Friend. With such a dearth of women faculty, Summers’ comments do not simply seem offensive; they seem like excuses. When addressing a problem of this magnitude, it is important for the president of the University to consider carefully the remarks...