Word: nordli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected to be a full citizen of the University, you simply cannot work at a rate that is any more rapid than your senior colleagues," says Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities Deborah E. Nord, an English Department professor whose recent tenure denial helped prompt the meeting with Bok. "They don't produce at a rate that would qualify them for tenure at Harvard...
...fact, many junior professors say that Nord's case is a classic example of the flaws in Harvard's tenure review process. Nord, the author of two books on Victorian literature, has an impressive resume of Harvard experience. Head tutor of the English Department for several years, she sat on the Faculty Council for three years and was also a member of the Committees on Degrees in Women's Studies and History and Literature...
...Harvard's system currently works, Nord's administrative duties were not even considered in her tenure review. And, despite the support of her department's senior faculty, Nord was denied a lifetime post by an ad hoc committee of outside scholars earlier this spring...
...most recent tenure denials were to Boone and Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities Deborah E. Nord. Bok, who has the final say in tenurematters, denied Nord's tenure bid in March afterthe department's senior faculty had approved...
...Nord yesterday said she had not attended thesession because it would not have been"appropriate." However, she said she supported thejunior professors' goals...