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On the national scale, the number of available positions in the field of English, for instance, has dropped 35 percent from last year. Similarly, those in foreign languages have dropped 39 percent, according to the MLA.

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Anomaly at Harvard? | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

In the most competitive year for humanities graduate students entering the field of academia since the Modern Language Association began tracking academic job trends 35 years ago, some administrators maintain that students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are an anomaly to the grim national picture.

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Anomaly at Harvard? | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

“For this year, yes, there are many, many fewer jobs,” says W. James Simpson, the English Department’s director of graduate studies. “But our students got them.”

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Anomaly at Harvard? | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Cohen also credited the University’s new College Fellow Program—instituted this past year—with providing several students with a means of support for the coming year.

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Anomaly at Harvard? | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

The program, which recruited 21 Ph.D.s for a one-year teaching and research fellowship, was initially conceived as a cost-cutting mechanism. Since the hiring slowdown limited the number of new lecturers FAS could hire last year, the new program provided a much cheaper alternative.

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Anomaly at Harvard? | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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