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Harvard has always held the ad hoc committee review of its tenure process sacred. So many were stunned this April when Andrew G. Myers received tenure in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology department without an ad hoc committee review...
Harvard then convenes an ad hoc committee of experts from within Harvard and from other universities. The committee advises Rudenstine on the tenure candidate...
Myers was granted tenure in Chemistry and Chemical Biology this year in a process which bypassed the ad-hoc committee review. University administrators attributed this departure from the usual procedure to the time constraints and extreme merits of the Myers' case...
According to Rudenstine, the case was reviewed by the Academic Deans group in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who "concurred with the department's judgment concerning the extraordinary quality of the case and the need for a swift decision." He then decided to bypass the ad hoc committee and offer tenure to Myers...
Despite the mystery of the tenure process, observers previously believed that the ad hoc step was essential to the tenure process and was never bypassed. But both Rudenstine and Knowles have acknowledged that the ad hoc has been skipped before...