It's All About the Money
It's not too easy.
Many assistants are paid for by money from the same grants that endowed their boss's professorship.
Vendler and Hoffman, who have both attained the high rank of University professor, were able to hire assistants because of their endowed professorships, according to Vendler and Gevelyn R. McCaskill, manager of finance and information systems at the Center for European Studies.
Despite her rank, Vendler is still only able to afford a half-time assistant.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has been reluctant to spend the money to hire additional assistants, the professors and staff say.
"We are in dire need of secretarial assistance and staff support of the sort we don't usually have," Vendler says.
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