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...tenure candidate needs to be well-rounded—both a professor and a scholar. “A weakness in either one could disqualify somebody,” says History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74. Though evaluations of scholarship and teaching are central to tenure decisions across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, administrators say the definition of scholarship varies by department. In economics and science, scholars develop their reputations by publishing journal articles, while monographs are more important for historians, according to recently arrived Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Brian W. Casey...
...says Summers, who adds that he turns down roughly one in 10 tenure cases that reach his office.GATHERING SUPPORTLike a college applicant, each associate faculty member entering the tenure review process in the penultimate year of his appointment must condense the record of his achievements in scholarship, teaching, and citizenship for a dossier.Unlike a college application, though, the manila folder containing a tenure candidate’s dossier may be up to 10 inches thick. According to the Appointment Handbook for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it may enclose such documents as the department chair’s case...
...Crimson reported in February 1939. Kurt M. Hertzfeld ’41 was also sponsored by Harvard. Then an 18-year-old refugee, Hertzfeld traveled from Austria in 1937 to avoid military conscription. Alone with no money, Hertzfeld said he saw a New York Times article about special Harvard scholarships for refugees, applied, and was awarded a full scholarship for his entire undergraduate career. Hertzfeld concentrated in economics and went on to Harvard Business School for which he was again awarded a full scholarship. “I was a very fortunate person,” he said...
...have children are at a “distinct disadvantage” compared with incoming senior faculty and their families because the University does not provide, or sufficiently subsidize, child care. Junior faculty members “must give up time they would otherwise devote to scholarship to scrambling for child care,” she writes in an e-mail.REMEMBER THE LADIESFor female faculty members in particular, having children presents physical difficulties and interrupts the tenure process—a situation these professors say Harvard could do more to recognize.“All the studies show that the group...
...because there is no Title IX incentive to pour money into men’s rowing—or even to adopt programs at all—the money and scholarship supply is much more constrained than amongst female programs...