Word: graustein
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There are approximately 390 tenured members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Under the Graustein plan, there are approximately 260 junior faculty people--two-thirds as many. Theoretically, since there is an eight-year sequence, some 33 men will be in the final year at any time. Now if a man stays around 34 years, Some 11 men will retire from the senior faculty every year. Based on the period 1962 to 1965, 45 per cent of Harvard's tenure appointments go to Harvard junior faculty, or five of these 11. Therefore, five out of 33 get tenure...
...size of all departments in the University is controlled by the Graustein Plan, which theoretically "froze" each department at its 1941 staff-size. The Plan also determines the frequency with which new tenure appointments can be made; in the case of the History Department, once every 24 years. In addition, the University also provides for teachers to be divided into five ranks, tells the department how many of each category it is entitled to, and fixes the salary of each position...
...awarding of tenure is taken very seriously, and an intricate mechanism has been devised to insure that it is done as objectively as possible. Although the Graustein Plan purports to regulate tenure appointments, in fact it is interpreted very liberally. According to Fleming, Dean Ford is moving toward a policy of over-appointment because of the difficulty of getting competent visiting professors to replace those on sabbatical. Such appointments are said to be "off the chart." What's more, a man whose assistant professorship expires when there is no Graustein vacancy may be appointed to tenure anyway. The Department will...
Lars V. Ahlfors has been named the first William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics. The new Professorship honors the memory of a former Harvard professor, one of the great American geometers of his generation...
Even if he grants the excellence of the University's faculty, the Innocent will still have reservations. He can hold up the so-called Graustein formula of hiring, for instance, as a qualified candidate for the junk-heap, simply because it discourages so many younger teachers of quality from coming here and effectively prohibits giving tenure to other desirable scholars. But his more important reservation about this fine faculty concerns its relationship to the odious undergraduate body. The great scholars have every right to ignore undergraduates (it is sometimes difficult to understand why more of them do not) and squat...