Word: professorship
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...University of Melbourne where she received both a bachelor’s and master’s of science degree. After completing post-doctoral work at Yale in the mid-1970s, she became a professor at University of California, Berkeley for 12 years and then assumed a professorship at University of California, San Francisco...
...Resources (CUR), an advisory group of major alumni donors, says that he also refrained from donating this year as a result of the resignation.“The fact that [Summers] is no longer there is discouraging to some,” says Wein, who has previously endowed a professorship at the Business School. OUT OF THE WOODWORKBut Summers’ departure may serve as an inducement to other donors to open up their checkbooks. Data released by the University in November of last year show that the alumni participation rate in the Harvard College Fund reached a 16-year...
...tenth of the total. There is little question that the money can be spent, professor’s say. According to Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Philip A. Kuhn, a department must have $4 million in the bank for every endowed senior professorship of the kind the fund hopes to establish to hire women and minority faculty.“I hope that $50 million is only a beginning for the long run,” Dean of the Divinity School William A. Graham, who served on the original task force and, as dean...
While an undergraduate at Princeton University, when Caroline M. Elkins informed her parents that she would be majoring in African history, they were “a bit horrified.” A professorship at Harvard and a Pulitzer later, the Elkins are probably glad their daughter did not major in economics.But the Foster associate professor of African studies has never been one to back down from pursuing her goals.INTO AFRICAIn just one year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Elkins wrote, edited, and published a nearly 500-page tome entitled “Imperial Reckoning...
...indispensable principle of scholarship: that evidence, logic, and self-scrutiny must prevail over any test of group loyalty.Better publicized was Summers’ spat with world-renowned African-American philosopher Cornel R. West ’74, who, as a University Professor, occupied the most selective rank of tenured professorship. Summers, according to West, instructed West to change his writings, discontinue his support of certain political candidates, and make regular compliance reports to Summers. When West complained, Summers reportedly made unsubstantiated insinuations about West’s personal life at a New York Times editorial board meeting, according to Richard...