Word: peering
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...scholars develop their reputations by publishing journal articles, while monographs are more important for historians, according to recently arrived Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Brian W. Casey, who advises departments on the hiring process. “An important principle still abides, which is that the process is profoundly peer-reviewed....Articles that are in peer-reviewed journals are always given more weight than those that are not,” Casey says. In the humanities, “hierarchies of excellence are not as transparent as they are in the sciences,” says Dean for the Humanities...
...immorality, though in our experience nearly every member of this community aspires to create the former. This incident is hardly paradigmatic, but is instead indicative of the human flaws that plague even those who seem to have it all.In no way have we enjoyed witnessing the fall of our peer, nor do we intend to lessen the seriousness of her transgression by pointing to the improprieties of others. What she did was wrong; we are, quite simply, disappointed...
...Staff Josh Bolten and Counselor Dan Bartlett want "an informed and successful advocate" who can spar with reporters and make the White House case more aggressively - both off-camera and on. One official said the cerebral Bolten wanted someone who could be "not an intellectual equal, but an intellectual peer." Snow, who was speechwriting director for President George H.W. Bush, is a longtime friend of Bolten's, and they recently had lunch together...
While most of Harvard’s peer institutions have labeled their junior professorships as tenure-track for years, Harvard had long forbidden the practice...
Oftentimes, our complaints about Harvard are problems that are well within our ability to change, and the accumulated wisdom that grows from stronger peer advising and more frequent extracurricular collaboration might be enough to do just that. The lessons Harvard students can learn from these kinds of collaborations, both on a personal and group level, can extend far beyond the confines of course selection or meeting scheduling. By seeing other students as peers rather than competitors and other groups as allies rather than opponents, we can grow as individuals and as organizations and learn skills and values that will serve...