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...Lawrence Buell, department chair, said each professor is leaving for tenure-track positions at other schools. Junior faculty in Harvard's English Department usually sign eight-year contracts and are rarely considered for tenure--a fact of academic life in Cambridge that many say prompts early departures...
...Buell says he thinks Harvard is especially prone to a dearth of professors at any given time given the high profile of many Faculty members...
Another factor is the size of the Faculty relative to the size of the student body. Compared with the faculty-student ratios at other front-rank universities nationwide, Buell says, Harvard's Faculty seem stretched thin...
According to Buell, five junior and two senior faculty have been recruited for the '99-'00 school year...
...going to, I hope, look fully staffed next year," Buell says, noting that there will be just one strained area, the English Renaissance...