Word: offerred
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According to Buell, the "somewhere else" that tempts junior Faculty from Harvard "would typically be somewhere that hires on the tenure track." That institution may even offer special, early consideration for tenure because the candidate spent time at Harvard...
Like Harvard, most other universities do not grant tenure easily. But professors Cheah, Masten, and Brian Harper, who left the Harvard English department in 1995, says the other schools offer the prospect of tenure, sometimes at the associate professor level...
...critics--such as some House tutors--still raised concerns that the criteria used for the study might actually mask underlying problems. Because the College's figures measure only large blocking groups, they offer little indication of whether students are forming smaller groups that are ethnically homogeneous...
Radcliffe observers offered the college's Board of Trustees several formal proposals. A plan put forward by three alumnae leaders called for an activist Radcliffe Center, the focal point for all women's programming on campus. Another plan, by five female members of the Faculty, would have created an Institute devoted specifically to the study of women and gender. Undergraduates, meanwhile, clamored and still agitate for a "women's center" to offer services they felt neither Harvard nor Radcliffe were currently giving them...
Within the United States and much of Canada, other colleges--propelled by their increasing wealth and the press's microscopic examination of every aspect of university life--offer Harvard meaningful competition. They may encroach more on Harvard's once unchallenged reputation than on the yield from admissions, but Harvard certainly faces constant comparisons with its competitors...