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Evidence seems to show that Harvard has gained a poor reputation as employer because of its tenure system. Pheng Y. Cheah was offered an assistant professorship in English but chose to accept an untenured position with tenure track at Northwestern University, because she was worried about her ultimate job security. She says the departure of Siegel, along with Assistant Professors of English Joshua D. "Jed" Esty, William R. Handley and Pellegrini, this year reassured him that he had made the right decision...
...quite clear that junior Faculty are almost never tenured [at Harvard]," Cheah says. "The only attraction for junior Faculty seems to be the institutional 'brand name,' which the institution exploits as a selling point...
...Pheng Y. Cheah, a graduate student at Cornell University, was one of the candidates who went elsewhere. He will begin an assistant professorship at Northwestern in January...