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...appointments only for research and another only for teaching. But there is another solution, which we have advocated in the past: hiring top-notch teachers for full-time teaching posts and renewing their contracts indefinitely based on their teaching performance.Currently, Harvard does not allow lecturers or teaching fellows to remain at Harvard for more than eight years. This archaic rule has a negative payoff: individuals who are hired for and excel at teaching students must leave regardless of their pedagogical ability. The typical argument for the eight year cap—that forcing lecturers to leave the University prevents them...
...been suggested that “the list” merely indicates that a constituency has been heard from, not that the person is a viable candidate. In this election cycle, the news has been of those who have removed themselves from consideration, intensifying discussion of those names that remain...
...insiders who remain on the list each present some interesting problems. The Provost may suffer from too close an association with the most recent administration, although there are many who regard his as the humane face of that administration, and he is an accomplished scientist who has a reputation for getting things done without scaring the horses. The history of provostial appointments to the presidency, however, is not encouraging. The dean of Harvard Law School is much beloved in that faculty which has a reputation for insisting on its own priorities. It refused to consider a move to Allston...
...fourth year as dean, Kagan’s record has professors of diverse political affiliations and scholarly interests saying that they want her to remain where...
...attempts by outsiders to suppress civil wars have failed. The ones that succeeded - Bosnia, for example - required a ratio of 20 armed peacekeepers per 1,000 locals. In Iraq that would mean an international security force of about 450,000 troops, and that's excluding Kurdistan, which hopefully would remain stable...