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But it remains unclear to what degree FAS will diversify its candidate pool in pursuit of creating the “new faculty.”
In turn, our views on education at the national level have informed our opinions on the issues that confront local Boston schools. In April, for instance, when Superintendent Carol R. Johnson announced a bold plan to revamp 12 underperforming schools, we initially considered her proposal to be counterproductive; It essentially...
“We were in an extraordinary position of both having the will, planning, and capacity for growth in the first half of this decade,” says History Professor William C. Kirby, who oversaw much of the expansion as FAS dean from 2002 to 2006.
In the last five years, the University has moved toward a tenure track process that looks to promote professors from within the community. As a result, FAS chooses its junior faculty under the assumption that they will ride the tenure track through to a full professorship.
“Certainly it will bring in fewer young people,” she says. “But the hope is that all changes, right?”