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This year the tenure issue was publicly debated through Associate Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz's battle against his tenure denial, while junior Faculty filtered out more quietly in other departments. Several of these junior Faculty members have said the tenure process is ambiguous and has pushed them to seek more permanent positions at other universities...
Harvard's tenure process conforms to certain standards, but also has quirks that have earned it criticism. Almost uniformly across academia, professors are supposed to advance from assistant professor to associate professor, then, if granted tenure, full professors. "Senior professor" generally means a person is at the level of a full professor, even though an individual may not have a tenured seat, according to Marquand Professor of English Lawrence Buell, who chairs the department of English and American Literature and Language...
...Bell Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics Jeffrey G. Williamson gives all junior Faculty members in his department a one-sided handout detailing "Department Procedures for Promotion to Associate and Full Professor." It gives the following explanation...
...promotion to associate professor, the candidate is reviewed by a subcommittee of about three members of the senior Faculty appointed by the department chair. This assessment occurs after about three years...
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...