Word: theda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dean Rosovsky's decision last week to form an ad hoc committee to investigate promoting Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, to a tenured position pleased Skocpol, but it did not surprise...
Wilcox's tally counts Social Analysis 10, a year-long introductory Economics course, as two courses: Whelan counts it as a single course. Furthermore, the six courses Wilcox listed include a half-course taught by Theda Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, whose teaching status for next year is uncertain while an ad hoc committee considers her for tenure. Whelan's count did not include the Skocpol course...
Crimson: Sociologist Theda Skocpol, whom some describe as a leader in her field, was recently denied tenure. She has since filed a complaint saying she was discriminated against because she is a woman. Would you care to comment on her case...
...Certainly discrimination of this type is more market at Harvard than at other Universities," she says, calling the low number of female Faculty members here and the recent denial of tenure to sociologist Theda Skocpol "particularly shocking...
...first step toward preventing such a loss in the future would be open discourse among the University, faculty and students. Questions must be posed an answered to find out exactly why a Theda Skocpol, or a Molly Nolan, etc., was denied tenure. Otherwise our academic resources are limited for reasons that are kept from...