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Last Friday at the 2007 Career Forum, as students and recruiters exchanged monotonic pleasantries inside the Gordon Track and Tennis Center, one high-pitched noise rose above the din. “Woohoo!” The Pillsbury Doughboy stood in front of the General Mills (GM) table , instantly recognizable in its white chef’s hat and expansive stomach—sure enough, the Doughboy responded to FM’s poke with a squeal of irrepressible glee. Emily S. High ’06, a marketing associate at GM, stood calmly by while the Doughboy began shimmying...
...recent survey conducted by the American Association of Universities (AAUP) based on 2005 data showed that Harvard had the lowest percentage of tenure-track Professors in the Ivy League, at 56.6 percent. Without a tenured position, associate and assistant professors’ time at Harvard is capped at eight years. Review is usually only offered in the penultimate year of a tenure-track professor’s term. Even with the possibility of tenure review ahead, the long process and lack of a guarantee can lead restless professors to hop off the faculty roster early...
...Chait adds that the benefits of bringing in preeminent scholars are invaluable to the growth of a department. “There’s less risk involved [when you bring in senior scholars] because you’re taking someone with a longer track record of productivity and success who can help to make dramatic leaps in quality, whereas it may take junior faculty 10 to 15 years to blossom...
...However, Yale remains one of few schools without tenure-track positions, a system under which professors do not know if they will be considered for tenure in advance. Until very recently, Harvard was the same. “If someone came into a junior position there was no guarantee that they would be considered for tenure at the end of their time here,” says Martin...
...dean of FAS, William C. Kirby oversaw measures intended to improve tenure prospects for junior faculty and mitigate the complicated, detailed, and immensely time-consuming series of hurdles involved in the tenure process. In February 2005 Kirby announced that Harvard would begin to advertise assistant professorships as tenure-track...