Word: masten
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Jeffrey A. Masten was an associate professor in the English department until 1998, and is now Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. He made it to the ad hoc review, but was denied tenure at the final level...
...Systemically, the failure to promote to tenure from within has over the years had seriously debilitating effects on the English department, its morale, collegiality and intellectual culture, and the continuity of the education it offers," Masten writes in an e-mail message...
Harvard would be better served, Masten says, if it made the process more explicit. He said that the secret letters full professors use to give their recommendation to Knowles should be eliminated so that there are no discrepancies between the public vote and the secret vote...
Like Harvard, most other universities do not grant tenure easily. But professors Cheah, Masten, and Brian Harper, who left the Harvard English department in 1995, says the other schools offer the prospect of tenure, sometimes at the associate professor level...
...Junior faculty members are obviously leavingmuch sooner in their careers than they did when Istarted at Harvard in 1991," Masten wrote in ane-mail message." I think that's clearly because,with regard to tenure, everyone knows there arejust too many obstacles--in the department and inthe University...