Word: widner
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Entitled "A Closer Look at Harvard's Hiring Practices: Women and Minority Faculty Tenure," the discussion was organized by students in reaction to President Neil L. Rudenstine's decision to reject the tenure bids of associate professors of government Jean C. Oi and Jennifer A. Widner...
Recent tenure concerns have involved two associate professors in government, Jean C. Oi and Jennifer A. Widner, which were both denied tenure despite having been endorsed by their departments. Final endorsement power rests with the presidents, currently Albert Carnesale, who makes tenure decisions with input from an ad-hoc committee...
...result is that tenure at Harvard is one of the rarest and most valuable commodities in the academic world. Even senior faculty in the department of government who supported Jennifer A. Widner and Jean C. Oi's bids for tenure would not criticize the strict process that denied them...
...drawbacks of such a policy occurred last week, when two Associate Professors of Government--Jean C. Oi and Jennifer A. Widner--were denied tenure by President Neal L. Rudenstine despite the fact that they had received their department's recommendations...
...leading scholars studying China in the field of political science. Widner has been instrumental in pushing African studies in the government department. If they don't measure up to Harvard's lofty ideals of scholarship, then who does...