Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...struggle, wistfully, to re-create some vanished adult faculty of judgment, remembering bits and pieces of commonplace old wisdom as we go (insights such as this: maybe kids need supervision). Robert Bly had it right: "Adults regress toward adolescence; and adolescents--seeing that--have no desire to become adults." We defined adulthood down...
Berkowitz reminded the president that at a May 5 hearing, Richards Professor of Chemistry Cynthia M. Friend, chair of the Docket Committee, guaranteed a judgment by the end of the academic term...
...appeal does not question the need for expert judgment in the tenure process. Competent and unbiased judgement is essential to the integrity of formal procedure...
This of course is an exceedingly low threshold, which befits a committee that lacks authority to sit in judgment as a deliberative body. Yet the elected members of the Docket Committee have had the question of whether my grievance is "clearly without merit" under "consideration" for now approaching five months, once again threatening to make a mockery of Harvard's own process. And time is of the essence for a member of the junior Faculty who must move...
Surprisingly, questions about the place of independence, judgment, integrity, confidentiality, competence and accountability in the life of the university are nowhere systematically addressed at Harvard University...