Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Klagsburn, who did his biochemical research with human skin cells, said it is still too early to tell what the hormone's actual target is, although he speculates it may be the lining of the gut in the gastro-intestinal system...
...true victim of the publications race, many argue, is the undergraduate. Junior faculty cannot afford to devote too much time to teaching, because every hour spent teaching is an hour lost to research. And despite pronouncements that tenure appointments will take teaching into account, junior faculty know any effort they put into teaching must be for its intrinsic rewards, for it will not sway tenure decisions. "Administrators just pay teaching lip-service--publications count ten times as much, and it effects undergraduate education. Harvard students are neglected students, talented, interesting people who often have never talked to a member...
...Another junior faculty member agrees, "Many senior faculty feel guilty because they can't place people as easily as they used to. So if they can't, they avoid the issue." David Gordon Mitten, Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, points to another fallacy in the publications game. "Research has been so overemphasized here that much of it is half-baked and not of primary quality because there exists so much stress on quantity," he says...
...good thing. Mechanisms are needed whereby excellence in teaching is considered in tenure appointments." Donald also notes the isolation of many undergraduates from faculty contact. "I worry about the invisible students in this community," he says, and points to universities such as Princeton, Johns Hopkins or Yale that retain research stature while placing more emphasis on undergraduate teaching...
Mitten suggests the possibility of setting up different tenure tracks, one for teaching and one for research. Perkins also favors altering the tenure process slightly to allow department chairmen to vote on the ad hoc committee instead of furnishing the committee with a written position paper and appearing for testimony. In this way, the chairmen would be able to prompt consideration of some of the younger talent...