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...tenure system, now shrouded in secrecy, must be made more accountable and fair. As it now stands, immense tenuring power resides in closed ad-hoc committees of scholars appointed to advise Bok. The names of people on the panels are never made public, and not even those at the center of the process truly understands how it works...
...remedy this situation, ad-hoc committees should be abolished and replaced by a Faculty-wide system in which no department could block tenure appointments at will. The University should institute a tenure-track system, which would guarantee each junior faculty member a realistic chance of receiving a tenured position. These proposals would...
...while Bok has put great stock in his new management style--one which he says allows more careful and deliberate decision-making--some say it has often subordinated the issues to the process. Many faculty watchers have said that Bok's networks of ad-hoc committees have led to slow progress on junior faculty promotions and reform within departments, while producing unpopular decisions on several tenure decisions both in FAS and Harvard Law School...
When the faculty became deadlocked over thepromotion of several left-wing scholars, DeanJames Vorenberg '49 asked Bok to intervene,breeching the school's traditional autonomy andconvening his own ad-hoc committees to review thecases of two professors...
...think we've arrived at a point in time when people are starting to voice their feelings," said Linda W. Newdick of the ad hoc committee on the status of women at Harvard-Radcliffe, which first met two years ago at a 35th reunion of the Class of 1953 and has recently expanded to include other Radcliffe affiliates...