Word: professorship
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...kinds of challenges that arise.” In introducing the outgoing president, former Kennedy School of Government Dean Joseph S. Nye said that he hoped Summers would join the Kennedy School faculty upon his return to academia in 2007. The Harvard Corporation has offered Summers a prestigious University professorship if he returns to campus after a yearlong sabbatical. But Summers, who was formerly the Ropes professor of political economy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has not specified where he would maintain an office as a University professor. In his resignation letter last month, he said only that...
Professors speculate that the first professorship resulting from the program will be in the Divinity School, and that the program will have an expanded focus on Islam in Southeast Asia...
...former chair of the economics department at Boston University (BU), Miron resigned from his tenured position across the Charles to take a non-tenured visiting professorship on this side of the river—with no guarantee of a permanent post...
...provost, he said. The dean of GSAS has traditionally been responsible for such programs.At a 2004 meeting, Summers justified his proposal by saying “that I was compromised by my appointment in the FAS,” according to Ellison, who then and now held the Cowles professorship in the FAS Anthropology Department.When he heard that another attendee at the meeting told others that the shift “might well happen,” Ellison offered to resign, according to his account.After Summers heard about the offer, he contacted Ellison and, in a “heated?...
Harvard University announced yesterday the establishment of the University-wide $50 million Professorship Challenge Fund that will be used to establish professorships for both current professors and new hires.“It is going to be a terrific effort,” said Donella M. Rapier, vice president for alumni affairs and development.When donors give $3 million for faculty development, the Challenge Fund will match these gifts with $1 million. The fund will match $1.5 million gifts with $500,000. Six donors, including University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg ’68, who helped to develop the fund, donated...