Word: professorship
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Nicaraguan historian and former Sandinista leader Dora María Téllez declined a visiting professorship this spring at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) after the U.S. State Department denied her a visa for her alleged role in “terrorist activities...
...summer of 1993, the young Larry Summers faced an enviable choice: resign from his professorship at Harvard so he could hold on to his top position at the World Bank, or return to the University from his leave of absence and get to work revolutionizing the field of economics...
Hariri, who built up a large fortune in Saudi Arabia, established the Hariri Foundation in 1979 to support Lebanese scholars, including students at the KSG. He also instituted the Rafiq Hariri Professorship of International Political Economy...
...president, was wooed away by the Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C. In just over a year, he managed to cut two boards out of eight total at the Institute, while still maintaining internal support. Meanwhile, the School of Public Health he had left behind named a professorship for him—the ultimate scholarly honor...
...will have won by default—bringing Washington politics to a university that has thus far resisted them. In short, with Harvard in the media spotlight, unusual power has fallen to those who never liked the notion of a university—who have long argued that the professorship is a cushy position that involves no work (as Summers implicitly did in challenging Cornel West a few years...