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What all of the Harvard departments seem to share, regardless of their size or prestige, is a demand for new, quality faculty members. While this is an innocent enough request, the brunt of the departments?? pressure falls on the junior faculty to produce academic work worthy of tenure. Faculty members say that this is an inherent part of academia, but at Harvard this pressure is magnified. Though tenure is certainly a generic debate not unique to Harvard, there is always some “tenseness surrounding the fact that the future for junior faculty is uncertain...
...smaller student body would encourage a more “intimate advising system,” but she has found the advising system “to be every bit as impersonal.” As a concentrator in economics—one of Harvard’s largest departments??Huang has learned to depend on word-of-mouth, friends and upperclass students. This get-it-yourself attitude stems from her advising at Cornell. “I was assigned a faculty and a student advisor. My faculty advisor was not very helpful. He just signed my forms...
...million aims to broaden programs in the humanities and social sciences and support science departments?? plans to phase out first-year teaching requirements...
...that they can focus all of their efforts on recruiting. The consulting firms can accomplish this by purchasing the answer keys to Harvard Business School case studies and simply changing the names above the graphs for their PowerPoint presentations. Similarly, the investment banks can outsource the I-banking departments??which again is just replacing “Company X” with “Company Y” on the front page of pitchbooks that no one reads anyways—to a Third World country with strong English and typing skills, like Cambodia or India. Trading...
Most grades from the English department therefore come from small classes, while the large majority of math department grades come from enormous classes—primarily of students satisfying prerequisites. A similar story may be found in the chemistry and physics departments??the majority of science grades come from the large introductory classes, where professors are much more willing to give C’s than in a four-person seminar...