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...surely also incumbent upon Expos to hire from a wider variety of academic fields. Preceptors would be able to draw from one another’s disciplinary knowledge and make the program even more responsive to our students’ wide-ranging interests and to professors??€™ expectations of writing in fields that are not currently represented in our faculty appointments...
...None of the significant changes recommended in January 2006 by a Faculty committee charged with reviewing how Harvard teaches writing have been made. Preceptors interviewed said that those changes—smaller class sizes, increased salaries for writing instructors, and more involvement of tenured and tenure-track professors??€”appear to be years off. Some cited turnovers in leadership and a lack of enthusiasm from administrators in University Hall as reasons for the lack of change...
Gross and co-author Solon Simmons, a professor at George Mason University, analyzed 1,417 full-time professors??€™ responses through a detailed survey containing over 100 questions about their social and political beliefs. Responses were gathered from 4-year institutions as well as community colleges...
...recent survey conducted by the American Association of Universities (AAUP) based on 2005 data showed that Harvard had the lowest percentage of tenure-track Professors in the Ivy League, at 56.6 percent. Without a tenured position, associate and assistant professors??€™ time at Harvard is capped at eight years. Review is usually only offered in the penultimate year of a tenure-track professor’s term. Even with the possibility of tenure review ahead, the long process and lack of a guarantee can lead restless professors to hop off the faculty roster early...
...Perhaps more bitter than a premature departure is when the tenure application of a popular professor is denied. Last year, two star junior professors??€”Sociology Professor Jason A. Kaufman ’93 and Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson—were both denied tenure after being nominated by their respective departments. Both will have to leave soon and find teaching jobs elsewhere, after spending years at Harvard...