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...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...
...next step on the ladder is an instructorship, and the Department has 12 of these. This position is open only to men and women who have already received their Ph.D., and is virtually unique to Harvard these days. At most institutions Ph.D.'s are known as assistant professors right from the start--a title which carries more prestige, but usually no more money. Even so, Fleming says, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit recent Ph.D.'s from outside the University to fill the post, a factor which contributes heavily to the inbreeding which the Department is always trying...
...Faculty's decision will increase the instructorship's appeal and raise its prestige without harming the status of present assistant professors. Important-sounding titles have a way of beguiling young men; but job security and foundation money will probably prove more enticing...