Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

19 Brazil.
8-25-04 Trial Transcript
20 BY MR. Van AELSTYN:
21 Q. Prior to the Gildred Professorship, the next position is
22 the William R. and Gretchen Kimball University Fellow in
23 undergraduate position. Why don't you run through this. You
24 have a better understanding than we do.
25 A. That's an endowed fellowship that was given to the ten
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1 best teachers at Stanford, or what the University deemed to be
2 the ten best teachers at Stanford.
3 Q. All right. Are there different levels of professorship,
4 associate, full, or anything like that?
5 A. Yes, at every university there is assistant professor,
6 which was what I was at Harvard University.
7 Q. When was that?
8 A. It's on the vita. It was 1981 to 1985.
9 Q. Why don't we move forward from there?
10 A. Yeah. I then moved to Stanford University and I was
11 promoted to the Associate Professor of that -- the difference
12 is that that means that you have tenure and are a permanent
13 position in the University.
14 Once you get to the tenured level, you -- there are
15 different levels after that. Full professor is the highest
16 level in a number of universities. There are other research
17 universities that have endowed chairs, and that is the highest
18 possible place you can get. That's what the Gildred Professor
19 is. So an endowed chair and a tenured full professor at
20 Stanford.
21 Q. You began as an assistant professor at Harvard, you moved
22 to Stanford, and became as an --
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