Word: instructorship
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This change is largely a semantic one, made necessary by the unwillingness of young potential Faculty to accept an instructorship at Harvard when they can get an assistant professorship anywhere else...
...application deadline was announced) he arrived home too late to apply to civil service school. Instead he languished in the French army, fulfilling his military obligation in Paris as an aide to the Minister of War--until January, 1955, when Bundy wrote and invited him to fill a vacant Instructorship at Harvard...
...Harvard junior faculty is based on a three-year instructorship followed by a five-year assistant professorship." This remark is totally misleading unless one realizes that Harvard is the only school in the country requiring a Ph.D. in hand for all instructors. In all other major universities (Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Berkeley), a man who actually holds the Ph.D. automatically becomes an assistant professor. Therefore, Harvard instructors (all of whom must have Ph.D.s) would be assistant professors at any other university and would consequently earn higher salaries...
Dean Ford yesterday compared the committee to the Committee of Eight, a 1939 group including Felix Frankfurter and Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., which completely revamped the junior faculty structure. The Eight established the instructorship-assistant professorship sequence which has been the basis of junior faculty appointments for the past 28 years...
Harvard is one of the few schools left in which a student with his Ph.D. serves a three-year instructorship before becoming an assistant professor. As a result, a number of recent Harvard Ph.D.'s are turning down instructorships here for more lucrative assistant professorships elsewhere...