Word: professorship
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...addition, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), an independent organization composed of faculty from across the country, calls for untenured faculty to be notified of tenure possibilities within six years of accepting a junior professorship. This policy is designed to avoid stringing along junior professors in the belief that they could receive tenure. Harvard also ignored this sensible policy in Vaux’s case—he should have been told at least a year...
Vaux said Diebold Professor of Indo-European Languages and Philology Jay H. Jasanoff, who is the linguistics department chair, notified him of the department’s intention not to request a senior professorship in Vaux’s specialty—phonology—last month. Vaux was promoted to associate professor...
Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics Calvert Watkins refused to comment on whether Harvard’s linguistics department merits a tenured professorship in phonology...
...with what was just said. Because I think that if he is continuously making comments that alienate most people, most Americans, mainstream, his peers, white people, then that could make him unfit. Okay, I’m actually kidding with some of those. But who is funding a University professorship? That guy you were talking to in the bathroom who is sending a million-dollar check...
...sure the majority of those white alums just have the impression of Cornel West that he has cultivated himself as a left-wing polemicist. And so they are thinking to themselves, “What is this left-wing polemicist doing with a University professorship?” And they may be wrong, his scholarship may have been impeccable, but he has created this image for himself...