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Professors also said the English Departmentshould change the way in which an ad hoc committeeof outside scholars evaluates candidates fortenure before delivering a recommendation...
...think there was a general sense in themeeting, and among the junior faculty and evenamong the senior faculty, that the present ad hocsystem doesn't work very well," said AssistantProfessor of English Allen H. Reddick, thedepartment's head tutor. "I don't think that's anygreat secret...
Ruttenburg added that ad hoc committeesunfairly compared junior faculty's research withthat of the leaders in the field who have had moretime to publish. She also said ad hoc committeemembers often are not specialists in the field ofa tenure candidate...
...other departments, Spence convenes an ad hoccommittee to judge tenure candidates only afterthe department has recommended them. But sincelast year, a committee of outside scholars hastaken part in the English tenure process from thebeginning...
...ivory that is less than 50 years old. The change of heart was inspired by an outcry that began soon after the tusks appeared in Sotheby's catalog. Clients and environmentalists said the sale would encourage poachers who are wiping out Africa's elephant herds. In a half-page ad in the New York Times, a Connecticut-based group called Friends of Animals asked, "Why auction elephant tusks in the midst of an elephant holocaust...