Word: seltzer
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When Margo Selzter received tenure in the Computer Science department last week, she beat all the odds. Harvard's tenure process is notoriously unfriendly to its junior faculty and few women, parents or inspiring teachers receive tenure. Seltzer was tenured from within the University, not hired after making her significant contributions at another university. She is an excellent teacher--she won the Roslyn Abramson award and the Phi Beta Kappa award for excellence in teaching. And her near-perfect 4.9 score in the CUE Guide for her course entitled Computer Science 161: Operating Systems shows her commitment to undergraduates. Finally...
...Seltzer's tenure may be incongruous at Harvard but that makes it no less important. Harvard must reward teaching excellence as well as published works, be friendly to women, not punish parents--mothers and fathers--and nurture its junior faculty...
...area Seltzer's tenure is certainly not out of the ordinary for Harvard--the quality of her academic work. Seltzer's research as the Associate Professor of Computer Science on the Gordon McKay Endowment, including the design of a new operating system, VINO, has been remarkable...
Your article on Margo I. Seltzer '83 (News, May 4) was offensive for its blatant sexism. I can't recall an article about a male tenured professor that focused on his family life and devoted only two sentences to his work...
...Seltzer did not get tenure because she can raise a child, she got tenure because of the quality of her work, which deserves some mention. You have belittled her accomplishment and judged her as "woman" and not as a scientist. Male professors have children who are important to them, and Seltzer has had a different experience because of her gender. This should not, however, be her defining characteristic...