Word: departmentment
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This week's meeting was set up by Bok andEnglish Department Chair Robert J. Kiely,professors said. In separate interviews yesterday,Kiely and Spence refused comment on the session,both calling it "confidential."
Knapp said he he has made informal inquiries atPrinceton, Columbia and Yale about their juniorfaculty policies. And other professors said thatthe English Department also endorsed their pleafor more leave in a letter to Spence last month.
In 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.
In an unusual move, Spence appointed theEnglish Department's committee as a permanent bodyto help break a hiring logjam that had stagnatedthe department's tenure process in recent years.But Ruttenberg said the committee had not improvedthe lot of junior members of the department.
The protesters said they wanted the Faculty toimplement all the recomendations of the Verbareport. The report, released by a committeechaired by Pforzheimer University Professor SidneyVerba '53 in March, calls for a new assistant deanfor affirmative action and for each department toappoint a professor to oversee its recruitment ofminorities and women...