Word: vauxã
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Seventeen students attended a meeting to discuss Vaux??€™s case on Feb. 17, but concentrators have not yet taken any collective action on behalf of the professor...
...faculty from across the country, calls for untenured faculty to be notified of tenure possibilities within six years of accepting a junior professorship. This policy is designed to avoid stringing along junior professors in the belief that they could receive tenure. Harvard also ignored this sensible policy in Vaux??€™s case—he should have been told at least a year...
...Vaux??€™s situation is symptomatic of a larger problem in the Harvard tenure process: junior Faculty are too often passed over in favor of candidates from outside the University. In order to attract the finest junior Faculty, Harvard must show that it will fairly consider internal candidates for tenured positions to prevent scholars from seeking employment elsewhere with better long-term prospects. Academics often do impressive work as junior Faculty in their quest for tenure, and it would benefit the University to have that work done here. Enticing assistant and associate professors to come to Harvard with...
Students at the meeting spoke out against Vaux??€™s possible exclusion from the tenure process for a number of reasons, citing in particular the quality of Vaux??€™s teaching and the personal attention he gives students...
Other students at the meeting suggested the group downplay Vaux??€™s popularity, instead emphasizing his ability to integrate other subjects within his field...