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...tenure process is one of the most mysterious practices of a secretive and complex University. Tenure decisions ultimately rest with President Neil L. Rudenstine, who is often (but not always) advised by a five-member "ad hoc" committee chaired by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. This anonymous group of scholars reviews candidates like Berkowitz who have been recommended by their departments for tenure. The committee can wield an enormous amount of power--in some cases, its recommendation can have more influence than the candidate's senior departmental colleagues. Yet the committee's votes are not recorded and explanations...
...addition, specific criteria should be established for the evaluation of junior faculty members to tenure positions. This would force the ad hoc committee to justify its decisions based on objective standards. Currently, a new professor must be the "leading scholar/teacher in the field," a superlatively vague requirement that allows an ad hoc committee to make any decision it wants for any reason it wants--without requiring that its reasons ever be revealed...
...part of the job that is spent in ad hoc committees making personnel decisions, he's the best you can possibly get--probably one of the best in the world," Delong says...
Berkowitz claims that Harvard breached its contract with him by failing to follow its own guidelines for hearing employee complaints. A Faculty committee dismissed his grievance as "clearly without merit" without sending it on to an ad-hoc panel for consideration...
Berkowitz is asking that the court order Harvard to form a new ad hoc committee to review his grievance and is also seeking monetary damages...