Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other junior faculty say the issue should not be granting more time for scholarship, but reordering priorities. Some faculty say that by giving less importance to teaching and service, the University is selling its students short...
...Assistant Professor of English and American Literature Allen H. Reddick, the current head tutor in the English Department, says, "University service has no bearing whatsoever on whether one gets tenure or not. It doesn't work in your favor at all, but it necessarily takes time away from your scholarship...
...Tenure at Harvard is very dependent on the outside reputation of the candidate. Because of that, you will inevitably see that scholarship matters even more," says Sociology Department Chair Aage B. Sorensen...
...many junior professors the issue is where to find more time for scholarship. If the University grants them an additional semester of paid leave time--they currently get one semester--many say that could make the difference for completing the second book, which often determines tenure in the humanities and social sciences...
...while most faculty--junior and senior--agree that the University should find a way to give more time for junior professors' scholarship, some say that simply giving more time off is the wrong way to go about...