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Associate Professor Barbara Claire Freeman and Assistant Professors Shannon Jackson and Nicholas Jenkins have said they will not return to Harvard next year. In addition, Cowles Associate Professor in the Humanities Jeffrey A. Masten, who was denied tenure last December, will take up a position at Northwestern University...
...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...
...evidence is pretty unambiguous: there are problems retaining and recruiting [junior faculty members]," Masten said. "Everyone knows the track record for tenure-from-within is dismal, almost non-existent," he said...
Jenkins and Masten both said junior faculty members are tending to leave sooner than they once did. Jenkins will onlyhave spent two years at Harvard...
...Masten, in his letter-to-the-editor lastmonth, leveled harsh criticism at the ambiguitiesof the system...