Word: graustein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite his extensive study of Harvard's juniorprofessors, Spence has avoided rhetoric orsweeping statements about the need to improve thelot of untenured professors. Instead, he quietlydismantled the old Graustein system, a rigidformula which for decades had determined how manysenior-level appointments a department could makeand when...
...What became clear to me as I worked with department heads on appointments plans was that the old system made it difficult to plan for reviews for promotion of junior faculty," he wrote in answer to questions submitted by The Crimson. "Department heads needed greater flexibility than the Graustein system provided. Hence we eliminated...
...eliminating the Graustein system, administrators may have sparked the opposition of faculty members who feel that the old structure ensured that Harvard would maintain its reputation for faculty excellence...
...principle philosophy of the Graustein formula was stability--that departments should stay at a particular size forever," Bossert says, adding "and stability is probably a very good philosophy...
...least, there seems to be broad-based consensus that the old Graustein system had major flaws. And that in itself is a major achievement for an 800-plus member faculty that is almost always resistant to change...