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According to Rosovsky, although the invitationssent out to prospective ad hoc committeemembers--three experts in the candidate's fieldfrom outside the University and two generalistsfrom Harvard--bear the president's name, thepresident is not really involved in theirselection...
...would be very rare for the president tomake any changes in the list of those invited toserve on the ad hoc committee," Rosovsky said...
Professor of Anthropology Peter T. Ellison, whowas in 1997 one of two associate deans appointedby Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles toconvene ad hoc tenure committees, was responsiblefor Berkowitz's committee. Ellison refused tocomment for this article; his choice of scholarsis one of Berkowitz's grievances...
Berkowitz's ad hoc committee included LeonKass, an ethics and biology expert from theUniversity of Chicago; University of Pennsylvaniapolitical scientist Ellen Kennedy; and IsaacKramnick from Cornell University's politicalscience department. The Harvard members of thecommittee were Starch Professor of PsychologyJerome Kagan and Professor of German Maria M.Tatar...
Berkowitz's complaint about the composition ofthe ad hoc committee centers on the fact that onlyone of its members was on an original list ofrecommended scholars submitted by the governmentdepartment when it endorsed Berkowitz for tenure...