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...Everyone acknowledges that it's much easier in some fields, e.g. physics or mathematics, to get consensus within a discipline about the `best' people," says Leo Damrosch, chair of the English department. "Literary studies in particular are subjective by their very nature, and all the ad hoc committee can do is to offer a representative evaluation...
...During the years I've been at Harvard, I have felt that the members of ad hoc committees were chosen with great attention to fairness," Damrosch says...
...have very little role as to the outcome....There is no way a chair, even if she or he wanted to, could significantly alter the course of events," says Leo Damrosch, chair of the English department...
...department] can recommend someone for tenure, but, as we saw in the Masten case, it cannot possibly predict how likely the person is actually to get tenure," says Damrosch, who is also Bernbaum professor of literature...
...letter] was an important reform someyears back, intended to serve the best interestsof the junior Faculty members," says Damrosch."They have a right to know--and to be told inwriting--whether or not their senior colleaguesthink they will have a chance to be recommendedfor tenure later on," Damrosch adds...