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After three years, the candidate is reviewed; after five, reviewed for associate professorship; and after eight, can be reviewed for tenure...
...full eight years, then could move on to a tenured spot at another University. The scarcity of these positions has forced Harvard to look at sweetening the time those junior Faculty spend at Harvard, thereby inducing them to stick around for the full length of their junior professorship...
...departing Faculty members focused their criticism on the tenure process itself, which they say sometimes threatens to impede their academic work. First, they say, it is structurally almost impossible to win a full professorship from within the Harvard system, starting at rank of assistant professor...
Evidence seems to show that Harvard has gained a poor reputation as employer because of its tenure system. Pheng Y. Cheah was offered an assistant professorship in English but chose to accept an untenured position with tenure track at Northwestern University, because she was worried about her ultimate job security. She says the departure of Siegel, along with Assistant Professors of English Joshua D. "Jed" Esty, William R. Handley and Pellegrini, this year reassured him that he had made the right decision...
...former chair of Prodigy, Inc. and a 1986 graduate of KSG--pledged $18 million in conjunction with his foundation to help start the new human rights center, which will bear his name. The gift will provide the center with an endowment and money to pay for facilities and a professorship...