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Central to the problem is Richard C. Marius, the director of Expos, who has molded the program significantly during his 15-year tenure. Marius is by all accounts a skillful teacher, an accomplished writer and, as Alumni Association Director John P. Reardon '60 points out, an effective fundraiser.
But as an administrator, Marius is seriously flawed. Many agree that he has hurt the program, alienated Expos preceptors and mistreated students. Marius refuses to implement changes most Expos teachers agree would strengthen the program, including something as simple as as assigning three papers instead of four.
He makes no serious effort to recruit teachers of color; there are no minority preceptors in a current Expos staff of about 40. In the past six years, in fact, there have been only three minority teachers on the Expos staff; all found the program on their own.
Expos boasts some talented writers and some excellent teachers. But the program's atmosphere and structure make it increasingly difficult to attract quality preceptors--and impossible to retain them. Expos teachers are poorly paid significantly less than their colleagues at several other Ivy League universities.
The Expos program's hopelessly misguided four-year rule, which Marius introduced in 1989 without a grandfather clause, resulted from his desire to quash dissent on the faculty. Other teaching positions at Harvard, including junior faculty appointments, carry term limits, but few are so rigid. Most preceptor positions in foreign...