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...Dillon family has a history of donating to the University. Dillon’s father, Clarence Dillon, gave Harvard the Dillon Field House after the old Locker House burned down in 1930, as well as generous monetary gifts. He established two Kennedy School professorships: the Douglas Dillon Professorship of the Civilization of France, currently held by Susan R. Suleiman and the Clarence Dillon Professorship of International Affairs, which Allison now holds...
Former GSE Dean Jerome T. “Jerry” Murphy, who knew Howe and now occupies the professorship that bears Howe’s name, noted the pivotal role played by Howe...
...since tenure decisions at CUNY are made through a panel of department heads at each college, Gallagher’s opposition would have been enough to defeat his bid for a full professorship...
...tenured professorship at Harvard is the holy grail of American higher education. Aspiring academics spend years publishing or perishing, always trying to distinguish themselves enough to be considered “the leading scholar in the field” and therefore qualify for an appointment to the University’s tenured Faculty. And like the search for the grail, the path to tenure at Harvard is often a mystery. Partly as a result of this inscrutable tenure process, there have been several controversial tenure cases over the last few years where faculty have said they were treated unfairly...
...dearth of internal tenure appointments has been another longstanding problem with Harvard’s hiring process. Members of the tenure review committee have thankfully said they hope to improve the atmosphere for assistant and associate professors, exploding “the idea that an assistant professorship is not a tenurable position at Harvard,” in Kirby’s words. As Summers has said, junior faculty have their best scholarship ahead of them rather than behind—and furthermore, they have usually established close, meaningful relationships with Harvard undergraduates that they lose when they leave...