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Similarly, you might want to build on Rosovsky's initial, unfinished exploration of the status and health of the junior faculty here. Rosovsky has commissioned a report to find out just how correct is the image of the malcontent assistant professor who hasn't a shot in the world at tenure. Is the system fair? And what can Harvard do to make junior faculty, who bear such a large portion of the teaching load here, feel more comfortable? Harvard can also take steps to attract even better junior faculty in the first place. Such a move would help to raise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dear Mr. Spence | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...Sandel has been criticized for not providing an alternative set of values and in Walzer's opinion. "It is not absolutely clear what it [a community perspective] means. He's criticizing certain kinds of liberal thought from a perspective he hasn't fully defined...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Doing justice | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...departments can do things to improve...the climate and relations between junior and senior faculty," says Putnam, who adds that this is going to be one of his highest priorities as chairman in Government. Besides, says History Department Chairman John Womack Jr. '59, the distance across the tenure line hasn't gotten worse in the last 15 years: "I don't think it's any more the case now than when I was a junior faculty member...We don't in this department make a great deal out of socializing." But on the other hand, says one junior linguist, socializing...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Ghosts in the machine | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...members very much as an equal. He consults with them, and the group decides major issues by consensus. While earlier boards up until President Eliot's time often were sharply divided, no one can remember the Corporation having a single vote in at least 30 years. However, although it hasn't happened in recent memory, all seven Corporation members agree that if there were a major division on the board the President's side would win, even if he stood alone. But the reason they say there have been no such splits is that they avoid making a decision until...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Keeping Their Hands In | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...does have the power to do so. What it does do is critique the selection process. "[We] will frequently say, 'it looks to us as if, in connection with this appointment, there has not been enough attention paid to appointing a woman or minority group person, or, there hasn't been a hard enough search to insure that we're getting the best of the young people,'" says Corporation member Hugh M. Calkins...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Keeping Their Hands In | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

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