Word: departmentment
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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 department chairs' already long job descriptions. There will also be a new committee formed to review affirmative action reports that each department will now be required...
...Verba Committee had proposed the creation of a separate administrative framework intended to move departments away from traditional hiring networks when making tenure decisions. The panel had called for a faculty member other than the department chair to serve as a "departmental representative for affirmative action...
But while Harvard athletes were making news on and off the field this summer, the administrative situation at the Department of Athletics remains murky. No successor has been named for Athletic Director Jack Reardon, who resigned his post in April. According to Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, a...