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...think we were getting very mixed signals from the dean's office," says one junior professor who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "With this abolishment of the Graustein chart we were told that we no longer had to worry about slots. But I understand that the [senior faculty who voted against Boone] thought that there were indeed a limited number of slots and that to promote him would take away from future slots...
...professor was denied tenure last week and another is under consideration for promotion. Some English professors say that Associate Professor of English Joseph A. Boone was denied tenure at least in part because the department's senior faculty still held to the old attitudes that had formed around the Graustein system...
Spence, an economist by training whose field of expertise is organizational behavior, came into his tenure as dean four years ago with the idea of possibly changing the old system, according to administrators. "I can't say that I intended to eliminate the Graustein system when I was first appointed," Spence says...
...What became clear to me as I worked with department heads on appointments plans was that the old system made it difficult to plan for reviews for promotion of junior faculty," he wrote in answer to questions submitted by The Crimson. "Department heads needed greater flexibility than the Graustein system provided. Hence we eliminated...
...eliminating the Graustein system, administrators may have sparked the opposition of faculty members who feel that the old structure ensured that Harvard would maintain its reputation for faculty excellence...