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A committee charged with reviewing the role of preceptors and senior preceptors within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences released a report early this month reaffirming its stance on time-capping appointments for the non-tenured positions, prompting disappointment among preceptors in various departments.
Convened by FAS Dean Claudine Gay in fall 2019, the committee concluded its work and submitted its report to Gay in May 2020, though the findings were only shared with preceptors this month. The report includes several recommendations, such as standardizing course loads for preceptors, as well as affirmations of existing policies, such as maintaining the term caps that have drawn criticism from preceptors in the past.
In an interview with The Crimson on Tuesday, Professor Cornel R. West â74 said Harvard changed course following public pressure and offered to consider him for tenure, but the fact that this reversal came only after external scrutiny merely solidified his decision to leave the University.
West also offered previously unreported details about the tenure controversy that led him to announce his departure, saying that it was a faculty committeeâs recommendation that he be considered for tenure â not his own request â that was turned down by the University.
West â a Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at the Harvard Divinity School and in the Department of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts of Sciences â announced Monday that he would return to Union Theological Seminary, three weeks after he publicly threatened to depart over the tenure issue. He first told the Boston Globe in February that the University had dismissed
“I was concerned that we weren’t going to make it through the semester,” Grundmeier said.
In December 2019, Grundmeier and his wife University of Massachusetts professor Anne Fitzpatrick welcomed their second child, Peter. Their five-year-old daughter, Catherine, was attending pre-kindergarten.
On March 8, 2020, Grundmeier and Fitzpatrick pulled their daughter out of school due to increasing concern surrounding Covid-19. Just two days later, on March 10, Harvard announced that all classes would transition online for the remainder of the semester.
In the days that followed, Harvard operations transitioned online. While faculty adapted in-person instruction ranging from lab work to roundtable seminars to Zoom, the pandemic also forced them to adapt their personal lives to accommodate an increased load of work and home responsibilities.
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