Word: masten
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...discourse of youth/age here short-hand for, or distraction from, other issues in this case? --Jeffrey Masten, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor in the Humanities
...write as a former faculty member of the English department to express my deep disappointment that the University chose not to offer tenure to Associate Professor Jeffrey Masten. Masten's records as a scholar, a teacher and a colleague are extraordinary...
...have just read the Jan.7 letter in which my former colleague Philip Brian Harper discusses the denial of tenure to Jeffrey Masten. I myself strongly supported Masten's promotion and regretted very much that it did not happen, but I would like to restate the remarks of mine to which Harper refers in the hope of clarifying two aspects of the Harvard system that are not always well understood...
...that Harvard is not a "tenure-track" institution as many universities are, and has never considered it normal, or even likely, that a newly hired assistant professor would be promoted to tenure in due course. It does sometimes happen here, and I wish it could have happened for Masten, but as I observed to your reporter it is seldom easy to make an irrefutable case for promoting a young scholar at the outset of his or her career when it might have been possible to choose instead an older scholar of the highest distinction and bring that person to Harvard...
Much though I wish Jeffrey Masten had received tenure at Harvard, I am well aware that the stakes are high and that the President faces an exceptionally difficult decision when he makes an appointment that will stand for the next fourty years. --Leo Damrosch, chair of Department of English and American Literature and Language