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...Afro-Am is a case study in the tradition-bound Harvard tenure system at its worst. A host of institutional defects--the bias against internal promotions, the never-ending hiring searches and the parochial departmental politics--are magnified in Afro...
Harvard's hide-bound tenure system prevents Afro-am from adequately filling its professorial ranks or adequately serving its students...
McKay's rejection represents an unexpected setback for the department, whose administrators had billed the tenure offer as part of an effort to reinvigorate Afro-Am here...
According to one former Afro-Am professor, the difficulties Harvard's department has had in attracting faculty are caused by the University's tradition-laden tenure system...
Blight said the University-wide problems were exarcerbated in Afro-Am because of its small size and unconventional fields of study...