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After saying there was a “good chance” last spring that he would leave Harvard because he did not believe he would be recommended for tenure, Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux has returned this fall and will continue to serve as the department’s head tutor...
...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...
...Vaux said Harvard required him to decide whether he would return by June 1—before he knew whether a position would be available at UWM—causing him to change his plans...
...Vaux is a favorite of many students in the department—the number of concentrators in linguistics has more than doubled since 1999, when Vaux became head tutor...
Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux alleges he is being illegitimately shut out of the tenure process due to lack of respect within FAS and the linguistics department for his field of specialty, and e-mails “two or three dozen” students...