Word: fas
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...this plan, faculty members shed some of their duties, carrying a lesser teaching load for a limited number of years before retiring. Payment and benefits under the plan vary. For instance, MIT's plan allows faculty to teach full-time while receiving 60 percent of their salary. In the FAS, faculty on half-time status receive half their salary, whereas at the Law School salary arrangements are negotiated with the dean...
...emotional impact of retiring is the first-order concern of faculty who want to continue contributing to the community. While various faculty members contend that point, there is consensus that retiring can be, in the words of one professor, like "falling off a cliff." With that in mind, the FAS has focussed on making retirement more attractive from a non-financial standpoint: Based in part on departmental discretion, emeriti faculty can teach and serve on various committees. They also have offices and, if they have grants, labs in which to research. They are also eligible for research funds...
Though she declined to reveal the contents of the letter or the list of signatories, Benhabib said that the group included representatives from Harvard Law School, the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Divinity School as well as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS...
...fact remains that since 1991, the percentage of senior women on the Faculty has only increased from 9.6 percent to 11.5 percent, an annual rate of change of less than .4 percent. At this rate, it would take almost 55 years for the fraction of tenured women at FAS to reach one-third...
...FAS report on the status of women confirms that Knowles has also asked a small group of alumnae to work with him to create a plan that will address the issues raised in the seven focus groups...