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...tenure system, which gives tremendous power to experts from outside of Harvard who serve on ad hoc committees, write letters comparing potential appointees, and who know more about citation counts than a professor’s reputation within a department. Furthermore, once a candidate passes the first round of vetting, there are secondary and even tertiary stages in the process that give effective veto power to so many parties that getting tenure becomes all but a crapshoot for even the most accomplished scholars.Harvard’s antipathy towards awarding tenure to junior faculty, especially internal junior faculty, is flawed...
...Faculty began expanding in 1999, and since then has grown from 615 to 723—the largest surge in FAS appointments since the 1960s. The majority of those appointments took place within the humanities and the social sciences. Knowles said he now wants to focus the second round of hiring in the sciences. Knowles said he now wants to focus the second round of hiring in the sciences. Over the next three years, the net size of the Faculty is expected to increase by 18. But the expected retirement of 120 professors—39 in the humanities...
...turned out, the Glock 19 was perfect for Cho's deadly purpose. The gun is just 6.85 inches long and 5 inches wide, according to a Glock website, and thus easily concealed. A vest with several pockets can hold a number of compact 15-round magazines that fit a Glock 19. Cho surely knew that in cold weather a mass murderer could carry an arsenal on his back and in his pockets, and there would be no way to detect him, short of metal detectors at every entrance to every classroom building and dorm...
Some parents complained that the university failed to lock down the campus and spread a warning after the first round of shootings. Still, two days after the shooting spree, many students resisted pointing fingers...
...Lester B. Pearson International Airport, located 20 miles from the city centre. The airport is not accessible by subway, so downtowners have to slog through traffic snarls to get there. That looked like an opportunity to aviation entrepreneur Robert Deluce, who, last October, launched Porter Airlines. Porter offered 10 round-trip flights every week day to Ottawa (and later, to Montreal), taking off and landing at idyllic Toronto Island, just a five-minute ferry ride from the city center. The island's green parks, beaches and petting zoo had long made the island a treasured summer escape for city residents...