Word: departmentment
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Last spring, Akira Iriye, an international historian from the University of Chicago whose subspecialties include American history, received a life-time post from the department.
An even longer drought in the department may also end this fall. No junior professor has been tenured from within the department in almost 20 years, and morale among untenured faculty members has traditionally been very low.
But last spring the department voted to tenure a historian of African history--one of the two final candidates for the lifetime post was Associate Professor of History H. Leroy Vail.
But when Institute of Politics Director Richard L. Thornburgh left the job to head for Washington and the Justice Department after little more than a year at Harvard, the IOP search committee shifted gears.
Instead, the plan finally adopted by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence last spring essentially adds the monitoring of affirmative action efforts to the department chairs' already long job descriptions. There will be a new committee formed to review affirmative action reports that each department will now be required...