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...only are many of the largest Japanese firms such as Nissan, Toyota and Mitsubishi providing significant amounts but individual East Asian industrialists are also supplying funds. A group of private businessmen in Korea, for example, formed the Korean Traders Scholarship Foundation and donated $1 million last summer for a professorship in Modern Korean Economics and Society...
Thompson said the Greek Studies Program will eventually include a professorship named for Seferis, an assistant professorship in Modern Greek, two graduate student fellowships and a bolstered Modern Greek Collection...
Wolfman practiced law privately for ten years before accepting a professorship at the Pennsylvania Law School. While a member of the Penn faculty, he came to Harvard for one year as a visiting professor. During this period other faculty members got to know him well, Sacks said...
Back in 1973, Donna Napoli, a Harvard Ph.D. Italian, tried to get an assistant professorship in the Romance Languages Department. The department gave the job to another candidate, a man, and explained to Napoli that her knowledge of Italian was inadequate for the requirements of the position. Napoli then complained to state and federal agencies, charging that Harvard had discriminated against her on the basis of her sex and her national origin, which she lists as American...
...will be given a chance to make a voluntary settlement. Steiner will not speculate what sort of an agreement they might reach. Napoli's husband wrote the Commission that Harvard could redress his wife's grievance by revoking the contested appointment and hiring Napoli, or by creating another assistant professorship for her, or by awarding her compensation for the difference between her earnings and the salary she would have made in the five-year Harvard appointment. Napoli now says she doubts she would want a post. "It would be awful to teach in the Italian Department after what has happened...