Word: vaux
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After he spent nearly a year publicly protesting the the Linguistics department’s handling of his tenure case, Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux said he was notified yesterday that the department would not put him up for tenure...
...decision almost surely represents the end of Vaux’s nine-year career as a professor at Harvard. Vaux said he has already signed a contract to start teaching as a senior faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) next fall, since he was told by UWM that he could preemptively resign if he was granted tenure at Harvard...
...Vaux, who was Maats’ professor in Social Analysis 34, “Knowledge of Language,” has endorsed Maats’ candidacy based on his personality...
...Vaux says Maats’ “Euro-brat background” has given him the necessary creativity and confidence to deal with Harvard’s administration...
...administration’s] first line of defense is always to play on the naïveté of the students who don’t know the inner workings of the system and use dean-speak to cow you,” Vaux says. “I don’t think that would work...