Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rosovsky describes it, the Faculty's salary structure depends on a criterion that holds more currency at Harvard than the exigencies of extramural commerce: age. This is verifiably true of junior-level salaries, which are determined according to one of two fixed public scales that apply uniformly to all junior faculty members, no matter what department they are in. Departments can choose which scale to adopt--one offers less but comes with a paid semester's leave of absense. In either case, the salaries vary only according to title and experience; thus, all third-year associate professors earn the same...
...aside from seeming impractical, Harvard's stratospheric tenure standards raise philosophical questions. Holding up eminence as the most important criterion in scholarship runs the risk of discouraging unorthodox innovation. Eminent professors, after all, in many cases gained their reputations by breaking away from the eminent scholars of their youth. The list of current luminaries whom Harvard once rejected for tenure includes Nobel-laureate Paul Samuelson, now an MIT economist and the popular astronomer Carl Sagan, currently at Cornell...
...ideological property of the women's movement, a tendency which leads naturally to the temptation to dismiss her male supporting characters as evil insensitive foils for the struggling females. The temptation is false, through: Atwood's men, though by no means models of balance, meet her "real people" criterion of complexity, and her feminism is of a healthy, direct sort...
...want to see the book of an exceptional individual used by others to make a general case." Rodriguez, who now lives simply in a small San Francisco apartment, shares that concern. Says he: "I've always been in favor of affirmative action, but only if class was the criterion rather than race...
...CONDEMNING the President's relaxation of a affirmative action guidelines, though. Rosovsky's report lays itself open to a more fundamental criticism. The Administration's laid back approach to enforcing hiring codes is only one facet of its broader attack on the use of need as a criterion and diversity as a goal in higher education...