Word: knowleses
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Responding to student concerns about the Core's inflexibility, the Faculty adopted Verba's call for FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles to develop incentives for teaching in the Core and urged Core committees to make their guidelines more inclusive.
Susan Lewis, director of the Core program, said she supports the legislation, though she said it is difficult to know exactly what its effects will be. She said Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles will be key in its success by enhancing the recruiting and review processes.
Knowles has emphasized recruiting junior faculty to serve as house senior tutors; several of the current senior tutors are graduate students. But some Winthrop students said junior faculty members often lack the time to be actively involved in student life and praised McCarthy's commitment.
At the outset it should be noted that Harvard has taken important steps toward rooting out inequality. Twenty-four percent of all tenured appointments in the last five years have been to women and in all hiring processes, departments are told to enlarge the applicant pool in ways that make...
One way to make this kind of effort less financially painful is to make the scar of gender-inequality an issue with donors. Indeed, the ongoing $2.1 billion campaign makes scarcely any mention of this persistent problem. But it is the prerogatives emphasized in fund-raising drives like this one...