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...found ourselves rather depleted in course offerings [with the recent departures and planned leaves]," said Leo Damrosch, chair of the English department. "Barbara Freeman has been a very popular teacher and an excellent colleague and we were delighted when the Dean [of the Faculty] agreed that she might teach in our department for one more year...
...Damrosch said his department is "absolutely" losing out with next year's departures, calling the three professors "wonderful people. He said the "diminished number" of junior faculty teaching next year may translate to fewer course offerings, but he added the drop in the number of courses offered would not be enough to be "disastrous." Masten said the Harvard English department is facing trouble...
...Damrosch said the reluctance to promote juniorfaculty members to tenure-status could poseproblems in "retaining faculty members but not somuch in recruiting them...
...Damrosch stressed the department has longdeclined to grant tenure to most junior facultymembers. Years ago, he said, junior facultymembers denied tenure at Harvard had a betterchance of finding a job elsewhere, a situationwhich no longer exists due to the shrinkingacademic job market...
...Damrosch said the department wrote strongrecommendations for Jackson, Jenkins and Masten...