Word: junior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the "best scholar" operating as Harvard's standard for promotions, junior faculty who have spent a large part of their seven years here teaching or doing committee work say they are disadvantaged...
Senior faculty members agree with Peterson's assessment of the tenure system, but many add that the current system is designed to maintain high academic standards and should not be changed to accomodate what many call the "good citizenship" activities of junior faculty...
Because senior faculty are asked to evaluate candidates for tenure around the country, to travel and speak at conferences and to sit on other universities' ad hoc committees, the amount of time they spend doing service work is considerably more than what junior faculty spend, Vendler asserts...
...many junior faculty say that they contribute as much time as any senior professor to the University--even as they struggle to finish the scholarly work that is expected of those seeking promotion...
...Before I came here a number of people said to me `Whatever you do, don't be head tutor,'" Peterson says. "Junior faculty are not reticent enough about accepting responsibility...