[dissidents]

Again, this is irrelevant. I find it hard to believe how often I have to repeat this. The Harvard Extension School does not hire tenured professors. You do not become a tenured faculty, let alone an associate professor, at Harvard's FAS if you have no research background. The story should fail a minimal scrutiny test from a layperson, let alone a journalist with more than 20 years of experience. This just doesn't add up.

[boomboomsubban]

Why do you repeatedly say "I can't believe I have to repeat this" and then say something you haven't mentioned in this thread?

What an "associate professor" is isn't common knowledge, even for a journalist. It both means something different in Commonwealth countries and the definition of "associate" is "entry level" which doesn't fit either version of an associate professor.

[Aeolun]

> You do not become a tenured faculty, let alone an associate professor, at Harvard's FAS if you have no research background.

This is not something someone without a research background would know.

[ghaff]

I'd absolutely expect an experienced American journalist to have a pretty good idea of how academia operates in the US. I do and I don't have a research background. I have no idea though how things operate in India.