Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other hand, junior professors say they have little incentive to teach well or to take on administrative duties. Says one scientist: "I have very little incentive except my own desire to look good before the class." A colleague concurs, saying, "I hate to stand up there and look like a jerk...even though it doesn't count...
...while research and writing are what count in promotional considerations, many junior professors say they are not given enough time for such pursuits. In some departments, junior faculty must teach more classes than their senior colleagues...
Another major gripe coming from the junior ranks is the distance they feel from the tenured faculty. The extreme view is that they are treated as hired help, brought in to teach a certain number of courses for a certain number of years. One social scientist says there is a rumor that "the senior faculty in History take pride in not knowing the names of the junior faculty members." In the Government Department, "the majority of the tenured faculty members just don't give a damn about the junior faculty members. They feel life was created for them, at least...
Donald S. Shepard '69 left Harvard and entered the Harvard-Africa Volunteer Program. He wanted to teach high school in socialist Tanzania but was denied a work permit. When his work permit was denied--he believes because he came from capitalist America--Shepard says he realized that "unbridled idealism was not what the world was looking for," that reformers need to work within existing organizations that have their own rules and procedures. After the experience. "I went into less idealistic, less grassroots sort of activity," he adds...
...Fifty years ago a university was still the great great grandchild of the original university, the place people took refuge to do research and teach," says Heiskell. "Today the university has suddenly been tossed into the world and is set upon by the environmentalists, OSHA, issues of race and religion, etc. Everything that goes on in the world swirls right through the university. Fifty years ago you could get by with just a single president and a couple of advisers. Today you have to have more management in the university, you have to have more lawyers and businessmen...