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...questions asked was whether the junior faculty was especially marginalized in the department. They are not, as I told your reporter. The department as a whole tends not to function as a scholarly or personal community--not surprisingly for a large institution in an urban setting with distractions and other communities aplenty. The junior faculty are in this sense no more marginalized than the senior, there is no particular exclusion reserved for them. Even assuming that I used the phrasing attributed to me, the way it was set in context certainly distorted my point, that in this respect there...
Remember, in short, that gardening is quite different from farming. The function of farming is to produce crops, food; the function of gardening, if it has one, is to delight the planter. Farming is essentially commerce; it exists for gain. Gardening is essentially art; it exists for itself. While the 20th century has turned farming into agribusiness, gardening rejects most of modernity's most cherished values. "More" and "faster" have little place in the garden, not to mention cost efficiency or the bottom line. It is to escape such things that one began digging...
Wood said that not only the Executive Committee but the entire Board should be more open. The Gilbert Committee on the Structure and Function of the Board of Overseers, which met in 1978 and wrote that the role of the Overseers was to reflect "the considered judgements of an enlightened society...
...point all Harvard administrators agree: there will be no quotas at the University, no numerical goals for raising the representation of minorities on the faculty. Affirmative action quotas in FAS are "not the way the University functions and not the way it will function," Bok said in an interview...
...will have to continue to unify the Law School's diverse faculty, a job he said he thought Vorenberg had done well. "One of the challenges for the new dean--which was also a challenge for the old dean--will be to harness that diverse group and make it function together," Sander said...