Word: graustein
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...days there was the Graustein system--a complex formula dating from the 1940s used to determine the number of senior-level posts in each department. Everyone, it seemed, criticized it, and few fully understood...
...Graustein system was built around a set of premises that most faculty now consider obsolete. Graustein, the Harvard mathematician who invented the formula, calculated faculty distribution based on the assumption that the faculty would not grow and that new academic fields would not arise...
...thing about the Graustein is that not all faculty appreciate how much negotiation was going on between some powerful individuals and the dean," says Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert...
...administrators and some department heads hope that the shift will help produce fairer consideration of junior faculty members and an increase in the number of women and minorities on the faculty. That task, as administrators are quick to acknowledge, is far from a simple one--the tradition of the Graustein system will take a long time...
...started his career by solving the famous Hilbert's fifth problem as part of a team, which is quite an outstanding achievement," says colleague Raoul Bott, Graustein Professor of Mathematics. "But he's always been very interested in the undergraduates as well. His office is always full of them...