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...Karen Blixen, the author of the memoir “Out of Africa.”Wood was planning to move to Denmark permanently in January after finishing his last semester at Harvard and hoped to find a position at the University of Copenhagen, where Rossel held an assistant professorship.“We were going to be infinitely happy,” Wood said. “You couldn’t be anything but happy when you were with Stine.”Many of Rossel’s colleagues also praised her cheerfulness and sense of humor...
...tenure process begins for a junior professor when a department decides to nominate her for a coveted full professorship. However, regardless of the zeal with which the department endorses their choice nominees, this step in the process is only the beginning of the long winding road to the final decision...
...selecting Harvard’s faculty is considered to be a paramount responsibility. So it follows that tenure, which entails a lifetime appointment, is a vote of confidence Harvard does not make lightly. Harvard’s highest official is alone endowed with the power to bestow a full professorship, the sole tenured position at Harvard. “The most important aspect of President Faust’s job,” says Casey, “Is that she chooses the future faculty of Harvard...
Bobo has had a standing offer to return to Harvard since his departure. Morgan was offered a tenured professorship at Harvard this May after her case was approved by Derek C. Bok, then the University’s interim president...
Upon returning to the Af-Am Department, Morgan will hold a tenured professorship, while Bobo, who will also hold a joint appointment in sociology, will become the Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, a new professorship that Gates said was created for Bobo. Morgan and Bobo were not immediately available for comment...