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Some department chairs agree with administrators' claims that they strive for an absolutely fair ad hoc committee, providing all necessary information for Rudenstine to make his decision...
Leaving the bulk of the decision up to an ad hoc committee in fields that lack concrete yardsticks is particularly problematic, professors...
...During the years I've been at Harvard, I have felt that the members of ad hoc committees were chosen with great attention to fairness," Damrosch says...
...composition of the ad hoc committee, a group of five people convened to advise the president about a tenure candidate's scholarly work, has also come under increased fire in recent years, as at least one Faculty member who was refused tenure has publicly claimed--backed by a senior professor--that this body was stacked unfairly against his candidacy...
Critics charge that Harvard's tenure process does not guarantee a fair hearing: department's opinions do not always carry much weight, the ad hoc committee can be biased and the final decision is made by someone who is often far from an expert in the tenure candidate's field...