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...teaching ability is considered as part of the tenure decisions for Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) professors. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers expanded the importance of teaching experience and evaluations in tenure decisions; the next president must continue this endeavor. And a system which considers both scholarship and classroom wizardry is tenable at a research university; Harvard Business School, for example, already takes both factors into account in its hires...
...beneficial for developing fledgling departments and groups of experts on key topics, it has the potential to leave tremendous voids in which Harvard has few experts. The best example of this is that the philosophy department has no professors of continental philosophy. Not only is there only tangential scholarship in this subfield, but students are unable to gain exposure to this particular area...
...structural problems that repel interdisciplinary scholars. Harvard’s stubbornly rigid system of departments and schools should not prevent the University from conducting research in important interdisciplinary areas. An institution of Harvard’s size and reputation cannot afford to have such large gaps of expertise; its scholarship (and the tangible worldly benefits that come from it) will suffer...
...president is in a unique position to influence faculty hiring and composition. The president makes new decanal appointments and meets frequently with the deans of each school, who make decisions at the earlier stages of the tenure process. The president also has the ability to set the direction for scholarship through various means of leadership, such as directing funds towards certain disciplines and helping to endow chairs in them. For instance, in the 1990s, the growth of what is now Harvard’s African and African American Studies department can be largely attributed to the leadership of President Neil...
...Coach Murphy has put an emphasis on recruiting nationally as well as recruiting against Division I-A scholarship schools,” Fitzpatrick says. “He isn’t intimidated to recruit against a Cal or Stanford or Northwestern...