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...every meaningful way it is the same thing as a professor emeritus, Fox and Thompson say. Just like professors emeriti, research professors do not receive salaries, teach classes, retain a vote in Faculty meetings or have departmental responsibilities. But both titles allow professors office space and continued access to the Harvard library system, among other perks...
According to Fox, about 80 percent of the Faculty who have retired since the new title has been offered have chosen the research professor moniker, while 20 percent have chosen to become professor emeritus...
While administrators and Faculty say that the professor emeritus title once had a certain status to it, it has since become synonymous--especially to grant-giving organizations--with inactive academics resting on their laurels. For those seeking to continue research after giving up teaching, the continued flow of grant money is the only way to sustain academic life...
Taylor is currently a professor emeritus of philosophy at McGill University and is the author of many books, including the well-known Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity...
...been nothing new for the rabble-rouser, who had been expelled from St. Paul's a few years earlier "for the good of the school," but some scholars remain thoroughly unimpressed by the pot gesture. "Very unoriginal of Hearst. Louis XVI did the same thing to Franklin," remarks Professor Emeritus Bernard Bailyn, who wrote on Harvard's origins in Glimpses of the Harvard Past...