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...tenth of the total. There is little question that the money can be spent, professor’s say. According to Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Philip A. Kuhn, a department must have $4 million in the bank for every endowed senior professorship of the kind the fund hopes to establish to hire women and minority faculty.“I hope that $50 million is only a beginning for the long run,” Dean of the Divinity School William A. Graham, who served on the original task force and, as dean...
While an undergraduate at Princeton University, when Caroline M. Elkins informed her parents that she would be majoring in African history, they were “a bit horrified.” A professorship at Harvard and a Pulitzer later, the Elkins are probably glad their daughter did not major in economics.But the Foster associate professor of African studies has never been one to back down from pursuing her goals.INTO AFRICAIn just one year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Elkins wrote, edited, and published a nearly 500-page tome entitled “Imperial Reckoning...
...ruling. “For this decision, which left me unemployed three months before I could complete my Ph.D. thesis, Harvard was widely acclaimed as a bastion of academic freedom,” Kamin wrote.‘GRAVE MISCONDUCT’Meanwhile, Furry’s associate professorship was in jeopardy.In May 1953, the Corporation placed Furry on three-year probation for “grave misconduct.”“Dr. Furry’s teaching is of high quality and has reflected no Communism,” the Corporation released in a statement about Furry?...
...turned Whitman away. “Princeton wouldn’t have me, because I was the wrong sex,” she says. “So I got on the train and went to Columbia.”After receiving her degree and advancing to a full professorship at the University of Pittsburgh, Whitman worked as a senior staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), and was the first woman to serve on the National Price Commission. Whitman soon landed a spot on the three-member CEA and yet another historical tag as the first woman...
...Petersen said on Monday.‘A GENEROUS INSTITUTIONALIST’While Knowles received accolades from a wide range of professors this week, he is connected to some of the controversies that have dogged Summers.It was Knowles who promoted Andrei Shleifer ’82 to an endowed professorship after the economist became embroiled in a fraud scandal stemming from the Harvard Institute for International Development’s dealings in Russia. In a 2002 deposition, Summers said he had told Knowles of his wish that Shleifer remain at Harvard despite the scandal.And at a Faculty meeting in February...