Tag: tenure

  • Nation & World

    Tenure-Track Review Committee releases recommendations

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Tenure-Track Review Committee released its 106-page review on the School’s tenure-track system, providing critical recommendations to Edgerly Family Dean Claudine Gay.

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  • Nation & World

    Faculty diversity continues to grow

    Harvard continues to make progress in its goal to diversify its faculty, with numbers of women and minorities reaching record highs.

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    Cover of the annual report of the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity.
  • Nation & World

    Women, overshadowed

    New research finds that female economists are not being fully credited for their contributions when they co-author papers with men, which may explain the significant tenure disparity between men and women in the field.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Targeting teacher tenure

    HGSE economist Tom Kane explains the issues behind the debate over tenure policies for public school teachers in New York and California.

    12 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Survey finds faculty satisfaction rate at 81 percent

    The vast majority of Harvard faculty report that they are satisfied with their positions here, according to the latest Faculty Climate Survey released today by the Office for Faculty Development and Diversity.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tough talk on education

    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie discussed his tough-minded approach to education reform during a talk at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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  • Nation & World

    Female Academics Less Satisfied Than Male Counterparts

    In the survey, led by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, women reported less satisfaction with reasonableness of scholarship expectations for tenure, whether their institutions make raising children and the tenure track compatible and the way they spend their time as faculty, among others…

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  • Nation & World

    Martha Schwartz named tenured professor at GSD

    Alan Altshuler, dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), recently announced that Martha Schwartz has been promoted to professor in practice of landscape architecture, with tenure (effective July 1). Since 1987, Schwartz has held positions of design critic and adjunct professor in the GSD, where she has taught options studios, portions of…

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  • Nation & World

    Eileen Jackson Southern

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 15, 2007, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

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