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Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said in an interview yesterday that President Neil L. Rudenstine's recent decision to waive the traditional ad hoc committee review of chemist Andrew G. Myers does not indicate a change in Harvard's tenure process.
"This signals no change at all," said Knowles, himself an organic chemist. "It has been done on rare occasions for decades...for compelling cases of some special urgency."
"The whole purpose [of the tenure process] is to bring the very best faculty colleagues to Harvard," Knowles said. "Whatever our processes are, they should serve that high purpose."
Knowles also discussed the report issued on Monday by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which criticized teaching at research universities such as Harvard.
"In broad terms, we know what needs to be done: the stacks must be equipped with sprinklers and made safe against fire, and all areas of the library must be climate-controlled to slow the deterioration of our printed collections," Knowles wrote in the letter.