Word: proportionment
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In drafting the “Ivy Group Agreement,” the presidents of the universities in the 1930s and 1940s agreed to “continue intercollegiate football,” while maintaining a necessary “proportion to the main purpose of academic life.?...
But now, there seems to be a new battle mounting on the horizon. Though the proportion of women tenured faculty is at a high of 20 percent, the number of tenure offers being made to women has steadily declined since the end of the 2000-2001 academic year.
In some departments, the proportion of senior women is miniscule. Out of 36 senior faculty in the Physics Department, for example, four are women. Out of 35 senior faculty in the Economics Department, two are women. Out of 18 senior faculty in the Chemistry Department, one is a woman?...
And the results were promising for Harvard and for then-University President Neil L. Rudenstine, who had urged the University to consider these questions. By the end of the 1990s, tenure offers soared within FAS, and the proportion of tenured women in the Faculty took an upward swing in 1998...
That was the last thing the Bush team had expected. Instead of employing his legendary charm to put the White House out of Kerry's reach, the opposite occurred. Bush was alienating a huge proportion of the audience with his manner. Spinning reporters afterward, Rove insisted that the President had...