Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When junior members of the English Department met with President Derek C. Bok and Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence earlier this month to complain about two recent tenure denials, they charged that Harvard places a disproportionate share of administrative work on its junior faculty...
...remedy the situation, the English professors proposed an additional semester of paid leave time and a more through evaluation of teaching and administrative contributions. And unless the administration accedes to their requests, the junior faculty said, they will not have a realistic chance of competing for tenure at Harvard...
...Historically, the English Department meeting [with Bok and Spence] is going to be very important," says newly tenured Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Alice A. Jardine. Jardine--and faculty members in a wide range of departments--say that the dissatisfaction of junior English faculty is but the most visible sign of problems with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' time-honored tenure system...
...expected to be a full citizen of the University, you simply cannot work at a rate that is any more rapid than your senior colleagues," says Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities Deborah E. Nord, an English Department professor whose recent tenure denial helped prompt the meeting with Bok. "They don't produce at a rate that would qualify them for tenure at Harvard...
...what is peculiar to American Samoa, one need travel only 40 miles across the waters to Western Samoa, a relatively forgotten independent island that has four times as many people as its American namesake, but no congressional support. In Western Samoa, people speak English in the gentle, sea-lapping cadences of the South Pacific; in American, they favor the twang of Beach Boys and Valley Girls. In Western, residents play the genteel old colonial game of lawn bowling; in American, they converge on a twelve-lane bowling alley. And in Western, the roads are lined with pigs, while in American...