Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has an extremely restricted pool of candidates from which it must hire if it is to maintain its level of excellence. In addressing the issue of faculty diversity, one must consider the issue of race at every level in our academic system, including the time required to get a Ph.D. and establish oneself as one of the most highly regarded authorities in one's field. I don't deny that faculty diversity is a problem, but it's certainly not simply a matter of changing hiring practices...
Harvard has great tenured professors and can compete with any institution at the tenured level (witness last week's hire from the another great school, the University of Chicago...
...tenured faculty member who will almost certainly not get tenure, I think the system is perfect. Because Harvard is a great institution it can hire the best professors in the world, not the best professors who happen to be at Harvard. Why would Harvard students want something different...
...appeared they were literally and figuratively taking us all for a ride," Steffen says. "We eventually made them hire another bus for other students and this year we made them charge students full price...
...appeared they were literally andfiguratively taking us all for a ride," Steffensays. "We eventually made them hire another busfor other students and this year we made themcharge students full price...