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Pusey joined Dean Ford's recent assumption that it is a "myth" that "publish or perish" has been the single rule government academic positions. Though Harvard has not over-emphasized scholarly publication, Pusey asserted last night, it in living a large number of teachers, who are available the undergraduate to candidate...
While Ford had dismissed as a "myth" the argument that "publish or perish" has been the single rule governing academic advancement, he had insisted that only by publishing the results of research can professors share their findings with students at other institutions...
...Thicket. Sayre's case, at first glance, appears to be clear proof of the academic injunction: "Publish or perish." Actually, it sharpens a whole batch of thorny issues that are becoming increasingly worrisome to students, professors and administrators trying to pick their way through the thickets of academe. The problem is especially acute at Tufts and other schools trying hard to make the academic big time, such as Emory, Western Reserve, Rochester and Tulane. Says the ambitious, respected president of Tufts, Nils Y. Wessel, "We are a threshold university...
Hope at Harvard. Perhaps the most promising experiment in trying to lower the pressure is currently under way at Harvard, where it is quite possible to both publish and perish. Of 180 assistant professors and instructors in the faculty of arts and sciences only about 20% will get tenure. Hoping to breed more of those uncommon Siamese twins who join eminent scholarship with inspiring teaching, Harvard's history, government and economic departments are offering fellowships that balance teaching duties with research opportunities...
...most distorting" myths about the American university is that teaching and research and incompatible, Dean Ford said yesterday. In an editorial-page article for the Boston Sunday Globe, he also attacked another "myth"--"that 'publish or perish' is the single rule governing academic advancement...