A year after Harvard's president, Lawrence H. Summers, promised a major effort to make the faculty more diverse amid a controversy about his remarks about women in science, a university report released yesterday indicated that most of the work remained to be done.
So, when a university administration starts talking about lengthening the time it takes to achieve that goal, it is bound to make the faculty a little worried.
One might consider any number of specific changes that make the faculty more positive, divided for convenience into professional and personal characteristics.
And the Communist cadres at Fuling Teachers Collegee made the faculty tyrants of Princeton and Oxford look rather feeble by comparison.
But big-time sports was "a juggernaut" that "rolls over people" who criticize it, he said, making the faculty a silent, fearful, impotent majority.
Ms. Kagan undertook a top-to-bottom transformation, making the faculty more diverse, at least ideologically, and the school more student-friendly and academically competitive, the facilities more modern.
The school's principal, McKay Robinson, stood at the back of the classroom, keeping quiet, mindful not to break the rule posted on the classroom door: "No English Please".At Wasatch Elementary, where 360 of the school's 860 students are in Mandarin immersion classes, officials made the faculty lounge an English-only zone so all the teachers could understand one another.
The challenges encountered go through the process of restructuring and also that of making the faculty aware of the process itself.
Other changes in Kasich's proposal, such as program consolidation and selling or leasing "non-academic" (read: revenue-generating) assets would also likely be a huge windfall to Wall Street because they would make the position of faculty more precarious and therefore presumably cheaper.
Nonetheless, fewer women than men make the transition to faculty careers, and those women who do "typically receive fewer resources and less support than their male colleagues," according to this report.
Moreover, one of our goals is to make the modules flexible: faculty looking for an exercise for a single course hour may choose only one part of a module, whereas faculty willing to commit more class time to these biomathematical applications can use the modules more extensively.
