Word: vaux
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...many students a thesis proves to be a rewarding experience—and the thesis can also lead to future employment, says Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux...
...tenure has nothing to do with teaching skills, approachability or concern for undergrads, and Vaux would better serve his cause by focusing on his scholarship. He’s a well-respected linguist with a strong publishing record, and he need not make the standard appeals of the popular-but-undistinguished professor...
Despite Vaux’s achievements, however, Vaux says the linguistics department senior Faculty have decided that they don’t need a linguist of Vaux’s specialty. Vaux contends that phonology, his specialty, is essential to the development of linguistics as a whole, and that these same senior Faculty are not familiar enough with the subject to judge its importance...
There should still be a way for Vaux to spend his career at Harvard, even if he doesn’t become a tenured full professor. Although it is not unreasonable for Harvard to preserve the designation of senior Faculty for the best and the brightest—in fields it considers most important—we should do all we can to keep teachers and researchers of his caliber in Cambridge...
...department should offer Vaux a tenured position as an associate professor, which would allow him to continue to stay on without the term limits typically imposed at the associate level. Whether or not Vaux would accept such a position is uncertain, but it’s the least Harvard can do to keep him here. I must admit, I’m not sure why Vaux would want to be a member of a department where he feels so under-appreciated...