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Harvard has a poor record of incorporating women into its faculty. After hundreds of years, in 1947 the first women was granted a tenured position, a Zeniurray Radcliffe professorship. In 1956 Harvard appointed its first tenured woman professor, in the Department of Astronomy. As recently as 1969-70, while the search was on for a new Zemurray professor, there were no tenured women on the Faculty. At the Harvard Medical School and at the Law School, no women held tenured positions until the mid 1960s and 1970s respectively. Today, only 17 of a tenured faculty of 569 in the University...
...professorship will not significantly alter Salmon's duties at the B-School, Salmon said. "It won't make any major changes immediately, but in the future I'll probably be spending more time on research and teaching in retailing," he added...
...idea whose time has come again, or so thinks David D. Perkins '51, Marquand Professor of English and American literature. He suggested to the Faculty Council last week that it consider establishing a tenured associate professorship...
Members of the Faculty Council are reluctant to express approval or disapproval of Perkins' plan. But several question whether the establishment of a tenured associate professorship might lower the standards for granting tenure...
...Netherlands and elsewhere, John Paul plainly seeks to shore up the church through doctrinal discipline. In Germany, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger recently used a long dormant concordat to deny a professorship to Johann Baptist Metz, a leading exponent of Liberation Theology. The Vatican doctrinal office has also just issued a second attack on a liberal study of sexual morality commissioned by the Catholic Theological Society of America...