Word: honig
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...decisions come just one year after two assistant professors in the Government Department--Bonnie Honig and Peter Berkowitz--were denied tenure in highly-publicized cases...
...Honig's case sparked a letter-writing campaign from other scholars in the Faculty, while Berkowitz appealed the decision with the help of prominent law school Professor Charles R. Nesson...
Fifteen female senior Faculty members send a letter to Rudenstine Protesting the denial of tenure to Bonnie Honig, associate professor of government. Their letter sparks widespread criticism of Harvard's secretive tenure review process and of the administration's stated commitment to faculty diversity...
...problems of such a secretive system became apparent most recently in 1997, when two associate professors of government were denied tenure despite strong records as teachers and scholars. Bonnie Honig and Peter Berkowitz were recommended strongly by their department and would have been valuable resources to the University. To many, Rudenstine's decision to deny them tenure was inexplicable. The controversies sparked by the Berkowitz and Honig decisions could have been avoided by greater openness and accountability in the tenure process...
...there is a conflict over a tenure decision, the more frequently University officials proclaim the objectivity of the process, the less likely the Harvard community is to believe them. A more open tenure process could eliminate the accusations of behind-the-scenes influence and stacked committees that followed the Honig and Berkowitz decisions...