Word: insidership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committees are very influential and each year habitually help Bok to decide to turn down three or four of the approximately 20 nominations advanced by the departments for the lifetime positions. They are supposed to be independent sources of counsel designed to guard against departmental "insidership" in pushing a particular candidate...
...that complicated. The thrust of the tenure system administrators have said, is to ensure the widest possible effort to recruit the very best in a given field. To this end, an elaborate system of checks and balances in place since the 1930s, has been created regard against "insidership" and to make sure candidates are judged strictly on their merits as scholars and teachers, not their political skills. (Some professors maintain, however, that the tenure process in certain departments have mailed the budget process on Capitol Hill...
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