Word: professorship
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Harvard professors are currently the highest paid in the country, according to a report by the American Association of University Professors. When compounded with the level of prestige attendant to professorship here, most professors are deeply contented to be on the faculty of Harvard University. Similarly, many students are already eager to earn a graduate degree here; providing extra incentives need not be our priority right now. While the goal of preserving the quality of teaching and research at Harvard is an essential one, these raises will have little impact. Instead, Dean Smith should have directed FAS funds toward returning...
...Fellows—a University group aimed to “give men and women at an early stage of their scholarly careers an opportunity to pursue their studies in any department...free from formal requirements,” according to its Web site—before obtaining his professorship...
...because there is no endowed chair at present in this field, Harvard has been unable to use the payout from this endowment for a number of years. Endowing a full professorship at the University requires about $4 million...
...sources of funding. In recent months, University administrators have taken steps to ensure that terms of such agreements are flexible enough to accommodate its beneficiaries, whose needs will likely change over time. Donations frequently come with strings attached. A fund, for instance, may be specifically intended to endow a professorship in Korean studies. Harvard officials are now reevaluating whether restrictive agreements signed in the past can be renegotiated to match available resources with current needs. “We now have a more systematic process, since there ought to be a mechanism to scrutinize endowments,” Dominguez said...
...history of legal education. Caspersen’s death comes at a time when his fund-raising abilities may have been most needed for the Law School when academic institutions around the country are facing challenges in raising funds. Law School Professor Charles Fried, who holds an endowed professorship, lamented Caspersen’s passing in an e-mail statement to The Crimson and said he “appreciated his warm and engaged generosity to Harvard Law School and its work.” Even after his death, Caspersen’s presence will continue to be felt...