News

Adams Alumni Go Nuts for Newly Renovated House

News

A Better Cambridge Announces Endorsements in City Council Race, Giving Boost to Incumbents

News

HUA Kicks Off With Inaugural Meeting Under New Administration

News

Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions

News

Memorial Church Reduces Programming Amid University Budget Cuts

Harvard's Gatekeeper

The next president must improve teaching and the intellectual diversity of the faculty

By The Crimson Staff

What does it take to reach the pinnacle of academia and receive tenure at Harvard? While nearly everyone agrees that a faculty member must be a top-notch researcher and scholar, the relative importance of a variety of other factors is highly debatable. Harvard’s president has a hand in every tenure offer the University extends; our next president must understand the importance of this power. Weighing these other factors will be one of the most critical judgments that he or she will have to make. We find two criteria that are particularly undervalued in the current system. The first is a candidate’s teaching ability. The second is the need to hire professors whose academic specialties are underrepresented at the University.

Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.

Tags