Word: nordli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities Deborah E. Nord is denied tenure, despite receiving her department's approval the previous month. The decision on Nord marks the second junior faculty tenure denial this year at a time when the English Department is seeking to make a number of senior appointments...
...emeritus professor of Science, William B. Anderson '39, a former University Marshall, and Williams S. Merwin, a poet who was present at the ceremony, became honorary members. And the Iota chapter elected Prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, President-elect of Radcliffe College Linda S. Wilson and educator Deborah Nord as recipients of honorary status...
...There is not any illusion about whether it counts for tenure because it absolutely does not," Nord says. "If the University is going to continue to have the tenure procedure it now does, it is not in the interests of junior faculty to be good citizens...
...just your work that is being evaluated, your reputation is being evaluated. You have to be doing your work and making your mark outside Harvard too," says Nord...
...despite the arguments for and against university service, many junior professors say the entire tenure system itself must be overhauled. "Part of me is hesitant to say the answer is giving people more time off, because I feel that the structure, standards and process are all wrong," says Nord...