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Legally, ride-sharing services avoid the regulations that govern for-hire businesses like taxicabs by forbidding drivers to solicit requests for passengers. If the business grows--and if there are some high-profile incidents--that could change. "It's a gray area," says Paul Angenend, an attorney specializing in transportation law. "If you ride-share 20 times a month, then you're in the for-hire business...
...power. Weighing these other factors will be one of the most critical judgments that he or she will have to make. We find two criteria that are particularly undervalued in the current system. The first is a candidate’s teaching ability. The second is the need to hire professors whose academic specialties are underrepresented at the University...
...quality of undergraduate teaching at Harvard is alarmingly unpredictable. All the pedagogical innovations in the world cannot make up for raw passion and talent in teaching. Because of this, the most effective way to improve the quality of a Harvard education is to hire teachers imbued with these qualities. This can only happen if teaching ability is considered as part of the tenure decisions for Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) professors. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers expanded the importance of teaching experience and evaluations in tenure decisions; the next president must continue this endeavor. And a system which...
...current structure for hiring new faculty is largely to blame. Departments play a major role in selecting candidates for tenure, and only departments—not interdisciplinary committees like social studies—can hire permanent faculty. This leads to two problems. First, departments often select professors with similar specialties. This leads to concentrations of outstanding professors in some subspecialties, who in turn attract other top scholars and top graduate students. While such a strategy can be beneficial for developing fledgling departments and groups of experts on key topics, it has the potential to leave tremendous voids in which Harvard...
Harvard’s next president must actively exercise his or her influence in the hiring process. That means viewing hiring committees not as a rubber stamp but as a final hurdle. It also means weakening structural barriers that stand in the way of improving teaching quality and scholastic diversity, even if that means confrontation with faculty who would much rather hire within their own departments and specialties unimpeded. Too much is at stake to blindly acquiesce...