Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every junior faculty member at Harvard contemplates such bleak prospects. Yet almost every assistant professor here shares anxiety over an increasingly tight academic job market, the tug of war between teaching and research, and the driving need to publish, to gain prominence in his chosen field. The post of junior faculty member itself is something of an anomaly. Not yet established in the profession, the assistant professor stands below the senior faculty in status and in age. But he outranks the graduate student in intellectual achievement and position. As one assistant professor puts it. "Junior faculty are in an intellectual...
...candidates are eager to accept a position here. "Harvard is an incredibly attractive environment, offering a superior library, intellectual climate and students," one junior faculty member in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature says. Harvard junior faculty members receive a fairly light teaching load, a sabbatical to do research for a year at half salary or six months with full pay, and an opportunity to exploit the University's astounding research resources. In theory, then, most junior faculty should be able to view their years at Harvard as exciting and rewarding...
...many do not. While no one disputes Harvard's opportunities and while few complain of overt ill treatment, many Harvard assistant professors cite barriers to a fulfilling experience including treatment varying among departments, frustrations of the bleak tenure prospects and the struggle to research adequately and teach at the same time...
...characters and budgets. "Junior faculty in different departments are treated very differently," one assistant professor in Government says. Some receive office space, telephones, and efficient secretaries to field their calls, Some are invited to attend departmental meetings while others are discouraged, and some receive much more monetary help with research than others, he says...
...controversy surrounds the interpretation of the Cambridge ordinance. Sheldon Krimsky, one of the members of the review board that drew up the ordinance, says the Cambridge rule is specifically tied to the 1976 guidelines. "The way it stands now, the city has to revise the ordinance or institutions doing research will have to conform to the 1976 guidelines." Parker Coddington of the Government and Community Affairs Office, says, "The new guidelines would in no way change the application of the ordinance to the old guidelines because the guidelines do not pre-empt city or state laws." But Donald Dressler, chairman...