Word: hire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professional. "The whole level of intensity has significantly picked up in this enterprise. I don't want you to infer that we were sort of a country club before, but it's just that the general nature of competition has forced this organization--just like every other one--to hire better people, to focus better people on topics and to push them a little harder," he says...
...lack of tenure prospects may be hurting Harvard's ability to hire junior faculty, according to some non-tenured professors contacted. "If I had kids, I wouldn't be here," says one. "Some of the best junior faculty prospects don't come to Harvard because there's no chance of progressing" says another...
...same time, the group initiated a series of meetings to move forward on the issue. In conversations with President Bok and other high-level University officials, the Black activists explored the idea of a new committee to monitor Harvard's efforts to hire Black faculty and staff. Their leg-work came to fruition this spring when Bok agreed to the creation of an ad hoc group to recommend new ways to better recruit, attract and hold on to Black faculty and administrators...
...just this official caution and steadfast avowals that the University is already doing all it can to hire minorities that leaves Black faculty and administrators convinced they will have to be the driving force behind Harvard's minority and specifically Black hiring programs...
Nearly every course taught by the Faculty (except discussion classes) employs TF's to lead once-a-week discussion meetings, grade tests, and hold office hours. Professors hire their own staffs--a task which, for some larger courses, means finding 20 to 25 knowledgeable grad students--and expect them to devote an average of ten hours a week...