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...dismayed and 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...
...enough for an associate professor like Brinkley to teach classes so popular that every year a lottery is held to keep admission to 500 people, to write books which win prestigious prizes, and to brave the perils of dining hall food to lunch with students? Does an ambitious junior faculty member at Harvard have to be as old the institution itself in order to gain tenure there? Melanie Cohen...
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...
...this is where the issue hits home for undergraduates. Consider: Last year over 1000 students signed a petition on behalf of Stellar's appointment to a lifetime post--an effort that came to nothing. Brinkley and Lee consistently teach some of the most popular courses in the book and bear a great burden of their department's teaching load. Brinkley and Starr, a Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist, now at Princeton, also practice a cogent writing style in their academic work that promotes accessibility to their research. The University itself honored Lee with the Levenson Award as Harvard's most outstanding...
Said Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Richard N.Frye: "Fleming and Handlin found [Brinkley's] worktoo journalistic...