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September-October 2005

• The Aging Enigma

• Forum: Exiting Iraq
• Vita: Frances Glessner Lee
• Caves
• Witness to Violence

• Cambridge 02138

• Too Much Sunscreen?
• Sonatas from Syndromes
• Cheering Chow
• Self-Esteem, Real and Phony
• Tsunami-Safe(r) Housing

• Destroying Childhood
• Off the Shelf
• Ice Cream and Vinegar
• Chapter & Verse

• Extracurriculars
• The Glory of Antiques
• High Italian

• Deep Dig
• Diversity Director
• "I can no longer support the president"
• A Sensitive Census
• Allston Options–and Actions
• Catherine Dulac
• A Robust Decade at the Business School
• A New Dean at HBS
• University Housing on the Rise
• Yesterday's News
• A Humanist Who Knows Corn Flakes
• Provost Positions
• The Shrouds of Cambridge
• Congo Report
• Scanning Species
• Brevia
• Women in the Sciences
• Head Booter
• Shielding the Goal
• The Long Goodbye
• 2005-2006 Ledecky Fellows

• The Press Professor
• Harvard's "Wider Communities"
• The Corporate Empires
• Hiram Hunn Awards
• Alumni Gatherings
• Hot Off the Press!
• Staying in Touch
• Aloian Scholars

• Lessons from the Limelight

• The Body, Revealed

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A Sensitive Census

The revelation last autumn that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) had made offers of tenured professorships to only four women during academic year 2003-2004—fewer than in any year save one during the preceding decade—set off the debate about the composition of the faculty that rocked Harvard for much of the past winter and spring (see “Tenure and Gender,” January-February, page 64, and coverage in subsequent issues). How has FAS fared since? It is too early to calculate the yield—the percentage of acceptances—for offers extended during the academic year ended June 30, but the number of offers extended to women at both the tenured and junior-faculty levels did increase, as shown in these data from FAS’s faculty-development office.

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