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...tenure candidate needs to be well-rounded—both a professor and a scholar. “A weakness in either one could disqualify somebody,” says History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74. Though evaluations of scholarship and teaching are central to tenure decisions across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, administrators say the definition of scholarship varies by department. In economics and science, scholars develop their reputations by publishing journal articles, while monographs are more important for historians, according to recently arrived Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Brian W. Casey...
...argued with in the ad hoc committee.”“Legitimately, there is somewhat of an adversary sense, you’re expected to go in and defend your department’s position and expect to be challenged,” says History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74, adding that when you ask 20 people for letters, there will be less-than-glowing responses that need to be explained. “The president is expected to be skeptical to some extent.”While “really sterling?...
...Harvard students should not be trusted; that would be an unfair and untrue generalization. Nevertheless, I sincerely worry that Harvard’s current veneer—our superior reputation—is maintained more by prestige than by substance. Only time, and the frequency of scandal, will tell. Andrew D. Fine ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Stoughton Hall...
...appearance in the White House briefing room at 9:10 a.m. to make the announcement at the precise moment it could be carried live with maximum drama on Fox News Talk?s The Tony Snow Show, carried on roughly 125 radio stations. Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends and Judge Andrew Napolitano, the Fox News "senior judicial analyst," did the honors as guest hosts...
When History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard in 1981 and took a position as an assistant professor of Japanese history, he says he knew it was a position “with essentially no prospect offered for tenure...