Word: formalities
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...appeal does not question the need for expert judgment in the tenure process. Competent and unbiased judgement is essential to the integrity of formal procedure...
...Faculty has a right to tenure at Harvard. But every member of the junior Faculty who rises through the ranks and fully performs his duties under his contract has a right to a fair process of review, and at the very least a process consistent with Harvard's own formal procedures...
...believe that in my tenure review Harvard failed to comply with its own formal procedures, institutional policies and norms of fundamental fairness enshrined in them. The associate provost of the University vigorously led opposition against me within my department (which nevertheless recommended me for tenure); the ad hoc committee, which advised the president about my tenure and was assembled by the office of the dean where the associate provost's spouse serves as associate dean for academic affairs, was severely flawed; and my candidacy for tenure was denied in April 1997 without explanation by the University president...
Under the FAS grievance procedures, the first step in the formal process is for the FAS Docket Committee to perform a "preliminary screening." The Docket Committee is required to advise the dean to form a Faculty committee to consider the merits of the grievance unless it finds the grievance to be "clearly without merit...
Although Tuller participated in UTEP, which means she could have been certified in Massachusetts, another benefit of the signing bonus program is that recipients do not need formal certification...