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Not only would the package alleviate budgetary pressure by incentivizing retirement for older professors, it would also create vacancies for younger, lower-salaried hires.
When he arrived on campus in 1961 as an assistant professor, Neurosciences Professor John E. Dowling said that the expectation was that only a handful of the other assistant professors in the field would be awarded tenure at Harvard. Dowling even left for Johns Hopkins University before being invited back...
These more experienced individuals provide their mentees with suggestions on fruitful areas of research to pursue and connections to other academic heavyweights in the field, shaping the younger individuals to become formidable candidates for tenure at Harvard.
Even before FAS’ finances fully stabilize, Lamont says that she has committed herself to increasing diversity within the faculty by expanding the pool of candidates considered for each new appointment.
Traditionally, the University has not placed enough emphasis on seeking out diversity—in categories like gender and ethnicity—in candidates for faculty positions, according to Lamont. Consequently, she adds, the list of contenders for the professoriate have tended toward homogeny.