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...committee as a controversial aspect of Harvard’s appointment process when compared to standing committees at other institutions.At Stanford University, tenure cases advance from the provost to a university-wide advisory committee called the University Advisory Board, says Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs Megan W. Pierson. The president approves a positive recommendation from the board but will read the case to make a final decision if the recommendation is negative.‘A BIG COMMITMENT’At Harvard, bringing together several top administrators and internal and external professors for the ad hoc meeting...
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...quite a spectacle,” Tim H. Pierson ’06, one of the few men to be seated on the floor, said after the show. “Everyone comports themselves with such seriousness...
Some critics contend that the whole movement was soft in the head. It "had as its ideological antecedent the notion that academics should take a back seat to self-exploration, socialization and working in groups," writes Cheri Pierson Yecke, a former education commissioner in Minnesota, in a forthcoming report for the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation titled Mayhem in the Middle: How Middle Schools Failed America and How to Make Them Work. "A disproportionate regard for student self-esteem and identity development," Yecke argues, yielded a "precipitous decline" in academic achievement...
...five 50-lb. creatures on the flight from Germany to protect his investment. (He had trucked them to Germany from Russia.) Zaslavsky hopes to produce the first American-grown beluga sturgeon and caviar, in 36 tanks on the 1,700-acre farm of his partner Gene Evans just outside Pierson, Fla. To fish farmers, beluga is the Holy Grail: a species whose eggs can be worth nearly $200 per oz. and whose life-span stretches 100 years. He figures he can harvest 10 tons of caviar annually from the herd of some 200,000 6-ft. creatures he plans...