Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Imperfect Process...
Harvard's tenure process conforms to certain standards, but also has quirks that have earned it criticism. Almost uniformly across academia, professors are supposed to advance from assistant professor to associate professor, then, if granted tenure, full professors. "Senior professor" generally means a person is at the level of a full professor, even though an individual may not have a tenured seat, according to Marquand Professor of English Lawrence Buell, who chairs the department of English and American Literature and Language...
After this meeting, executive committee members review the candidate's research, resume and teaching materials to prepare for a final debate and vote in a second meeting, about a week after the initial meeting. The candidate is aware of the process as it evolves and is told of his or her prospects for future promotion or tenure if awarded an associate professorship...
...departing Faculty members focused their criticism on the tenure process itself, which they say sometimes threatens to impede their academic work. First, they say, it is structurally almost impossible to win a full professorship from within the Harvard system, starting at rank of assistant professor...
Harvard would be better served, Masten says, if it made the process more explicit. He said that the secret letters full professors use to give their recommendation to Knowles should be eliminated so that there are no discrepancies between the public vote and the secret vote...