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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...
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...
...English. On the other hand, the last four years have also seen the depletion of the Government and History departments, particularly Americanists; the mass exodus of junior faculty from the English department; the seeming failure, if not iniquity, of the tenure system in the cases of government professors Bonnie Honig and Peter Berkowitz, and a huge missed opportunity in a periodic review of the Core to fully abandon the tired program in favor of distribution requirements. There has been no real progress on ethnic studies, and little to nothing has changed in such vital areas as section size, teaching fellow...