Word: junior
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Despite the ambiguous status of the assistant professor at Harvard, most candidates are eager to accept a position here. "Harvard is an incredibly attractive environment, offering a superior library, intellectual climate and students," one junior faculty member in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature says. Harvard junior faculty members receive a fairly light teaching load, a sabbatical to do research for a year at half salary or six months with full pay, and an opportunity to exploit the University's astounding research resources. In theory, then, most junior faculty should be able to view their years at Harvard...
...many graduate students have found, different departments have distinct philosophies, characters and budgets. "Junior faculty in different departments are treated very differently," one assistant professor in Government says. Some receive office space, telephones, and efficient secretaries to field their calls, Some are invited to attend departmental meetings while others are discouraged, and some receive much more monetary help with research than others, he says...
Scientists have a better chance than non-scientists to obtain outside funds for their research, and so do not face the same financial or career difficulties of assistant professors in the humanities and social sciences. Within these fields, however, status differences persist. The department of Sociology invites junior faculty to all departmental meetings and asks them to serve on a number of departmental committees; the Committee on History and Literature has separate meetings for the Board of Tutors (including graduate students and junior faculty), and the meetings of the senior faculty affiliated with the concentration. Teaching assignments may also vary...
...receive up to about $1000 to aid research projects. No such discretionary funds exist in the departments of English and Romance Languages and Literatures, for example. Donald A. Stone, chairman of the department of Romance Languages and Literature, says, "The most I have been able to do for my junior faculty is to get them travel money when they present papers at national academic conferences." English junior faculty may apply to the National Endowment for the Humanities to get money for their research, but the grants are fairly competitive, David D. Perkins, chairman of the Department of English, says...
Much more disturbing to most junior faculty than the irritations of differential treatment, however, is the fact that most have absolutely no chance of receiving a tenure position at Harvard. The percentage of junior faculty Harvard has tenured over the last century gauges as well as any figures the flooding of the academic market with well-trained scholars. Bruce Collier, special assistant to Dean Rosovsky, outlines the facts: In the early part of the century, Harvard granted tenure to over 50 per cent of its junior faculty. In the early 60s, about 20 per cent of the in-house faculty...