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After a department meets and recommends a candidate for tenure, the department chairman must submit to the Dean a list of scholars, outside as well as inside the University. From that list, the Dean and President select an ad hoc committee to judge the proposed appointment. This ad hoc committee then considers a pile of written material prepared and collected by the department chairman. Such material includes letters from the chairman and other members of the department, opinions of scholars inside and outside the University, a biography and bibliography of the nominee, a description of the search procedure...
...Department had in fact not wanted to appoint Klein, it might very well have spared itself the unpleasantness of arguing his merits and simply sent his name to an ad hoc committee sure to shoot him down. Neither Klein nor his senior colleagues contend that is what happened. Such things have happened, however, in the History Department, which is notorious for its acrimonious debates and factional splits...
...hoc committee procedure is designed to help the President judge a candidate's qualifications and ensure that the department has checked outside the University in searching for the most eminent scholar available. The system also helps watchdog the distribution of tenure appointments among the fields within a department. Sometimes a department selects more than one name and asks the President and the ad hoc committee to choose the best person. More often, it proposes one candidate and requests his confirmation...
...special committee's recommendations were no doubt important. But senior members of the Department who testified before the ad hoc committee say that President Pusey himself played an extraordinarily energetic role. "He was clearly in command," one Geology professor recalled. Pusey easily dominated the men he had asked to serve on the ad hoc committee. One of these men had also sat on the special review committee...
...only thing that I find an unresolved problem is the non-reaction of the Department," Klein says in retrospect. "They had made two decisions: a promotion to associate professor, which was a unanimous decision, and then a unanimous decision to recommend me to the ad hoc committee. I find it odd that the Department in no way reacted." Klein thinks that the chairman could have appealed the verdict to a new judge, President Bok, who took office a month later...