Word: junior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Both allegations are true," says Edward T. Wilcox, director of the General Education program and, in his words, "utility infielder" for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "Both allegations are true in the following sense: Junior faculty members are on the beginning of a death run. They have five years, and they have an inordinate number of things to do in a short time--they must get the book published, they do tend to be given the larger undergraduate courses, they perform a number of duties...
...issue for undergraduates and junior faculty alike then becomes, as Kiely says, that "good teaching, or let's say at least devotion of a great deal of time and energy to teaching, is not very well rewarded at Harvard...
...discussion of junior faculty problems the issue of tenure raises its ugly head. If the undergraduates' major demand on the system is for better education, the junior faculty's must be for more secure employment. The struggle then is to balance the needs of the student and the young teacher and the University. Says Kiely, "I don't see how to solve that except to keep some kind of tenure system and keep a good rotating junior faculty. The rotating junior faculty refreshes the system. But if tenure were somehow or other to be given to all these wonderful young...
...complaining of the junior faculty, then, merely the normal noise of the system in motion, or something abnormal...
...think it's abnormal because of the unbelievable tightness of the job market," says Wilcox. "The only question the junior faculty has is not how it's going, but 'why can't I be tenured...