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...After teaching for eight years, a professor is usually reviewed for tenure or not," said Eck, who took the lead in pushing Asani's tenure through the process. "But Ali has been teaching with so many responsibilities for so long...
...Although Asani was notified at the end of June that Faust had approved him for tenure, he said he is still waiting for information outlining his salary, benefits, and responsibilities...
...Asani, who teaches the popular Core course Foreign Cultures 70: "Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies," has served as a professor of the practice of Indo-Muslim languages and culture for 15 years...
Diana L. Eck—the chair of the Study of Religion, in which Asani is jointly appointed—said his position was an "enormously unusual situation...
...Asani was first considered for tenure in 1992. But he said he was told then that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences did not have the funds to create another professorship. When Asani was offered tenure at the University of Bonn in Germany that year, Harvard fought to keep him, Eck said, by making him a professor of the practice in the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) and the Study of Religion. The seat is a senior position with five-year contracts...