Word: professoriat
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Undergraduates blame both the president and the professoriat for the recent crisis of governance at Harvard’s highest ranks, but Lawrence H. Summers earns better marks than Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) members, according to a poll conducted by The Crimson last week...
...want to teach is not necessarily the best selection of courses for students—a remark that drew impromptu applause. Asked by one dad whether faculty tenure is an impediment to promoting excellence in undergraduate education, Summers expressed concern with the increasing age of Harvard’s professoriat due to tenure and federal laws that ban mandatory retirement. But Summers said he sees faculty tenure as important not only because it protects academic freedom, but because without tenure, he said, faculty members would be reluctant to hire new professors that are smarter than themselves...
...though in contrast to years previous Summers generally starts late—that one need struggle to look attentive through them. Sadly, it is hard to see Summers’ disregard for the customs of Faculty meeting as anything but symptomatic of the disrespect this administration has shown the professoriat. And the attempt to shut the Faculty out of University governance comes at a time when their input is most needed for the curricular review and Allston planning...
...think the real social justice issue for the professoriat is the decrease of tenured and tenure-track positions, and the increase of ad hoc positions,” she said, referring to appointments of visiting lecturers and professors, who are not considered for tenure...
...adamant, if courteous, supporter of affirmative-action, and his interest in the vital problem of race in America inspired him to build the nation’s finest department of Afro-American studies. And he was, by all accounts, passionately devoted to maintaining the high quality of the Harvard professoriat...