Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"Obviously, Harvard exists as a teaching and research institution and it wasn't founded to merely create jobs in Cambridge. But if you take one of the many spokes of the wheel out, it would not be as effective," Williams says. "We can't just say Harvard exists purely as...
According to Buell, the "somewhere else" that tempts junior Faculty from Harvard "would typically be somewhere that hires on the tenure track." That institution may even offer special, early consideration for tenure because the candidate spent time at Harvard.
"It was quite clear that junior Faculty are almost never tenured [at Harvard]," Cheah says. "The only attraction for junior Faculty seems to be the institutional 'brand name,' which the institution exploits as a selling point."
Cuno may have an advantage in his relatively unique position in the University hierarchy. As head of an "allied institution" (other such entities include the Harvard Forest and the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study), Cuno has no dean between himself and Rudenstine.
"There is an ongoing assessment now to determine whether museum use, or museum coupled with other uses such as housing or other uses all together are desirable for the institution on that site," says Mary H. Power, Harvard's director of community relations for Cambridge. "We're still assessing the...