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Many professors say that on ad hoc tenure committees??€”advisory committees that vet tenure candidates before the University president decides whether or not to grant the candidate tenure—Summers aggressively pushes his favored candidates over others and show favoritism towards certain subfields within a discipline, stifling a department’s ability to make its own appointments...
...this spring. Promising proposals for a decentralized council, a streamlined grants process, an expanded CLC, and direct elections to the UC’s to-be empowered committees were all considered, with disappointing results. In May, a bill that would have introduced direct elections to UC committees??€”a reform we staunchly advocated—was defeated 18-13. We condemned the apparent death of what we consider the UC Reform Commission’s most important proposal, and chastised the UC for the destructive self-interest behind the decision. If council members are unable to put the wellbeing...
...Faculty Council met Wednesday with members of the two faculty task forces on women, lauding the committees??€™ two newly released reports but cautioning that more budgetary and legislative hurdles must be overcome if the reports’ recommendations are to be implemented successfully in the long term...
...Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) took a small but important step forward yesterday as five of the six HCCR committees??€”all but general education—presented concrete proposals to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). We agree with most of the committees??€™ recommendations (look for a synopsis in our Commencement issue), but there are a few that are unrealistic or fundamentally flawed. In particular, Expository Writing should not be graded pass/fail and should be taught exclusively in the fall, a January term should not be added to the calendar, and advising changes should...
...committees??€™ recommendations include abolishing the Core in favor of distributional requirements, moving the concentration choice deadline from the end of freshman year to the middle of sophomore year, and requiring all faculty to participate in undergraduate advising...