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...York Times editorial, she argued that the tenure process conflicts with women’s biological clock since most professors spend their 20s—the prime child-bearing years—working to earn tenure at a given institution. Thus, the culture forces young women faculty seeking tenure to often choose between family and career...
Tilghman’s suggestion of a longer tenure clock—one that would give professors more time to both raise a family and complete the amount of research and scholarship necessary to earn tenure—is one potential solution...
Similarly, for young scholars doing groundbreaking work in emerging fields, it can be difficult to earn tenure in institutions where more traditional fields tend to dominate...
...been rounded off, as Harvard’s Committee on Undergraduate Admissions waded through thousands of applications four years ago and determined that each of us had merited a coveted place in the Class of 2003. But really what it did was make an educated guess that we would earn it in the future—that we would use the opportunities afforded to us wisely and make the most out of them. We’ve all jumped the most basic hurdle: We’re graduating. But the process of winning our admission to this place?...
After Harvard, Golden went on to earn an M.A. in Japanese history from Columbia University in 1980 and later an M.A. in English from Boston University...