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...favor of proposed amendments to the bill that would exempt tenured college faculty from the 70-year minimum mandatory retirement age. University-level academics are among those jobholders who can be expected to continue to work if the unamended bill is approved. And, as Graduate School Dean Edward L. Keenan '57 says, professors "tend to be obscenely long-lived...
...somewhat ironic that Keenan the academic should find himself engrossed in the trials and tribulations of the academic market. It is a market with which Keenan has never known any problems. The specialist in medieval Russian history was given the unofficial nod for a tenured appointment in 1968, at the tender age of 33, only two years after he received his Ph.D., and joined the Harvard faculty...
Unlike most GSAS deans of the past, who carried half their normal teaching loads while serving as dean, Keenan intends to teach his full complement of courses this year, including a Gen Ed course, Social Sciences 30, "Lands and People of the USSR." "I'm not a workaholic and I'm not going to kill myself on purpose," Keenan says of his decision to not cut back on his teaching. "The crucial thing will be if I don't have time for my own work--my research and writing. If that happens, I'll have to make an agonizing reassessment...
Undoubtedly it is clear that Edward Keenan should be a very busy man for some time to come. As if teaching a full load of courses and occasionally jetting off to Teheran were not enough to keep him busy, he has committed himself to attempting to tackle the major long-range issue upon which the viability of graduate education at Harvard hinges...
...prognosis is guarded, as Keenan would be the first to admit. "What we must do here at Harvard GSAS is try to keep a certain amount of quality and self-respect at a time when all hell will be breaking loose on the charts," Keenan says...