May 4, 2007

Success for Professors at Community Colleges

To the Editor:

Robert Drago assumes that all women academics aspire to do research at a handful of elite universities ("Harvard and the Academic Glass Ceiling," Careers, March 30), and that success is measured by "a tenure-track position of the sort [Harvard President Drew Gilpin] Faust held at the University of Pennsylvania." He cites the large number of women consigned to adjunct positions and remarks, "I have never met a contingent faculty member who moved onto the tenure track,

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