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Vaux had hoped to leave for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) because he said Linguistics Chair Jay H. Jasanoff told him the department would not be seeking a tenured professor in Vaux??€™s field of phonology, the study of sounds in speech...
Seventeen students attended a meeting to discuss Vaux??€™s case on Feb. 17, but concentrators have not yet taken any collective action on behalf of the professor...
...Despite Vaux??€™s achievements, however, Vaux says the linguistics department senior Faculty have decided that they don’t need a linguist of Vaux??€™s specialty. Vaux contends that phonology, his specialty, is essential to the development of linguistics as a whole, and that these same senior Faculty are not familiar enough with the subject to judge its importance...
...Harvard’s abundance, the University is not an infinite resource, and it can’t employ a professor to pursue every branch and sub-branch of Veritas. Some pruning of the tree is unavoidable. A debate over the merits of Vaux??€™s field should be left to the experts, both here and at other institutions. Insofar as students are qualified to judge his candidacy—in his performance as an instructor inside and outside of the classroom—he’s preaching to the choir...
...Vaux??€™s situation is symptomatic of a larger problem in the Harvard tenure process: junior Faculty are too often passed over in favor of candidates from outside the University. In order to attract the finest junior Faculty, Harvard must show that it will fairly consider internal candidates for tenured positions to prevent scholars from seeking employment elsewhere with better long-term prospects. Academics often do impressive work as junior Faculty in their quest for tenure, and it would benefit the University to have that work done here. Enticing assistant and associate professors to come to Harvard with...