Word: macfarquhar
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...Just as Harvard must benefit from time to time from its proximity to Route 128...so Stanford will naturally try to exploit Silicon Valley," Williams Professor of history and political science Roderick MacFarquhar wrote in an e-mail message...
...MacFarquhar says professors leave their jobs--and choose new ones--for a variety of reasons. For instance, he says that professors may choose to leave Harvard because they want to do research or write, rather than teach...
...MacFarquhar says he knows of at least one professor who left Harvard in order to have more time for research...
Morris P. Fiorina, a former professor of government, left Harvard for Stanford, telling colleagues he "recommends Stanford for faculty and Harvard for undergraduates, because a lot of faculty there only have to teach half the time," MacFarquhar says...
Another one of MacFarquhar's colleagues who has visited Stanford was amazed at the number of people in the political science department who taught part time and spent the rest of the time doing research...