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...tenure candidate needs to be well-rounded—both a professor and a scholar. “A weakness in either one could disqualify somebody,” says History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74. Though evaluations of scholarship and teaching are central to tenure decisions across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, administrators say the definition of scholarship varies by department. In economics and science, scholars develop their reputations by publishing journal articles, while monographs are more important for historians, according to recently arrived Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Brian W. Casey...
...committee.”“Legitimately, there is somewhat of an adversary sense, you’re expected to go in and defend your department’s position and expect to be challenged,” says History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74, adding that when you ask 20 people for letters, there will be less-than-glowing responses that need to be explained. “The president is expected to be skeptical to some extent.”While “really sterling” candidates make...
...associated with the Harvard seal may still be disappointed. “What does the new Harvard look like? It can’t be a wild spaceship, and it can’t be a replica of a four hundred-year-old building,” Christopher M. Gordon, the chief operating officer of Harvard’s Allston Development Group, told members of the Harvard-Allston Task Force last night. Preliminary sketches of the 500,000 square foot science complex that will set the tone for the rest of Allston depict modern glass buildings connected by aerial walkways...
...There was a story going around when I was an assistant professor in history [in the early 1980s] that there was a point of pride among some of the tenured professors not to know the names of the non-tenured professors,” Gordon says...
...loved Creative Nonfiction Writing with Kyoko Mori. I loved Shakespeare with Gordon Teskey. And I’m really getting a lot out of my classes, this semester, with Lynn Festa...