Word: vaux
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Although the Department of Linguistics has not formally notified Vaux of its plans, Vaux said the department has already started a search to fill his spot on the Faculty with a professor in a different field...
...weeks ago, Vaux sent an e-mail to a few dozen linguistics concentrators and graduate students outlining the details of his case for tenure, encouraging them to meet and “brainstorm about possible courses of action,” and suggesting that it would be “helpful” for them to meet with Knowles and University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...Bert Vaux is wasting his time appealing to students in his quest for tenure...
Three weeks ago, in a long and detailed e-mail distributed widely among students, Vaux complained that the linguistics department was not justified in its intent to deny him a tenure review. He argued that the department violated procedure by failing to notify him sooner, when he was first promoted to associate professor. He went on to make a case on the merits of his scholarship, ending with a plea for sympathetic students to come...
...professor can rally students to his cause, it’s Vaux. As an incoming first-year, I received an invitation from Vaux for a one-on-one meeting simply because I had listed linguistics on an admissions form, along with a half-dozen other interests. His core offering, Social Analysis 34, “Knowledge of Language,” has been my favorite class so far. Considering that almost 400 students were enrolled with me last year, it’s clear that he would be missed...