Word: scholarshipped
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Under Harvard's present system, tenure decisions are consigned to ad hoc committees of experts from outside the University. This archaic process excludes innovative scholarship, devalues teaching skills and drives young talent to other schools. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History Hue-Tam Ho Tai, who received a lifetime post in 1989, was the first junior professor promoted within Harvard's History Department in 20 years. No wonder junior faculty members desert Harvard in droves...
...administrative changes are not enough. Even the most enlightened of tenure systems will fall flat without a fundamental revolution in attitude. Bok has formally vetoed or informally discouraged the tenure applications of several popular professors, especially in non-traditional fields of scholarship, such as Alan Brinkley, now professor of history at Princeton University...
Rudenstine attended the Wooster School, in Danbury, Conn., on full scholarship. He then attended Princeton College, graduating summa cum laude...
Rudenstine's colleagues speak highly of his scholarship and teaching. "He's accessible and friendly, and has an obvious command of the material," said A. Walter Litz, a professor of English at Princeton...
Rudenstine's colleagues speak highly of his scholarship and teaching. "He's accessible and friendly, and has an obvious command of the material," says A. Walter Litz, a professor of English at Princeton...