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...saddened to read in The New York Times that Associate Professor Alan Brinkley has been denied tenure. It seems unfair that with a stroke of his pen Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence can add Brinkley's name to the list of other stellar junior faculty members like Bradford Lee, Robert Watson, and Paul Starr who now grace the halls of universities like UCLA and Princeton after being refused tenure at Harvard...
While it is not our place to endorse candidates for Harvard's lifetime faculty posts, the recent denials of tenure to Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History Alan Brinkley, Professor of History Bradford A. Lee and Professor of English Robert N. Watson call for renewed scrutiny of Harvard's tenure policy. First, these professors represent some of the College's most valuable teaching resources...
That Harvard has attracted "top-rate junior faculty" is not a point of contention. Bradford Lee received the Levenson award for outstanding teaching. Alan Brinkley won the American Book Award for history in 1983. Robert Watson received unanimous endorsement for tenure from the English department. Each of these professors has offered courses among the most popular in the catalog. All were denied a senior position at Harvard...
Brinkley's tenure denial was the second for aHistory Department member in less than fourmonths. Associate Professor of History Bradford A.Lee, who like Brinkley is an expert on20th-century American history and a highlyregarded teacher, failed to win a lifetime postearly last summer...
WHEN THE UNIVERSITY recently denied Associate Professor of History Bradford A. Lee a lifetime post, no one was really surprised--least...