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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...tenure system, now shrouded in secrecy, must be made more accountable and fair. As it now stands, immense tenuring power resides in closed ad-hoc committees of scholars appointed to advise Bok. The names of people on the panels are never made public, and not even those at the center of the process truly understands how it works...
...remedy this situation, ad-hoc committees should be abolished and replaced by a Faculty-wide system in which no department could block tenure appointments at will. The University should institute a tenure-track system, which would guarantee each junior faculty member a realistic chance of receiving a tenured position. These proposals would...
...maintains that the best way to ensure that Harvard only attracts the best scholars is to preserve the tradition-bound ad hoc committee system, in which he presides over a panel of outside experts who determine whether department-nominated tenure candidates are worthy of Harvard lifetime posts...
...interesting, Diane. Nielsen used to depend on diaries and household meters to measure national viewership. But in September 1987 the company switched to people meters. These devices, currently in 4,000 homes, require every member of the household to push a button whenever he or she starts watching TV. Ad executives love people meters because they can tabulate exactly who is watching TV at any given time. But the networks don't trust the gadgets, mainly because they show fewer people are watching network TV than the old system...
...networks aren't happy. If the missing viewers can't be found, they stand to lose hundreds of millions in ad revenue. Alan Wurtzel, ABC's research chief, says, "Just at the time we need more precision, we have a methodology that seems to be providing more volatility...