Word: higher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Higher Office...
...didn't want to exclude anyone because of cost. When things are on the higher end, we tried to have things like open bar," she said...
...Harvard experience has been about our greatness. I have a strong belief in the inherently higher value of our class over other Harvard classes, past and future. That is to say, we are smarter, cooler and generally better people. That is to say, our class can kick your class's butt...
...tenure system in American higher education is in crisis. Colleges and universities across the country are abandoning the practice of granting lifetime appointments to faculty members, a guarantee once considered necessary to protect academic freedom. Luckily, Harvard has been spared much of this turmoil. No one has seriously proposed abolishing tenure at Harvard; nor should they. Tenure is not perfect, but the benefits of ensuring job security for Faculty outweigh the costs...
...University, along with the rest of American higher education, eventually has to realize that a professor's quality can't be measured in published pages alone. Harvard's tenure system must reward truly good teachers, not just pay lip service to the second half of their standard of "leading scholar/teacher available in the field." The University's goal should be to create a diverse Faculty of competent teachers and scholars. Until they do, it is undergraduate education that will continue to pay the price...