Word: knowleses
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After having "warmed up the basement of Memorial Hall" with a $10 million gift to create a student commons in 1995, Loker's most recent $17 million donation will help "cool down our collection of books" with climate control mechanisms, Knowles said.
But tenure rates for junior faculty are improving. According to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles' annual letter to the Faculty the tenure rate for junior faculty last year was 15 to 20 percent. This represents a slight increased chance in promotion.
The ultimate decision to bypass the committee, although made in consultation with Knowles and the Academic Deans, rested with Rudenstine.
Despite the mystery of the tenure process, observers previously believed that the ad hoc step was essential to the tenure process and was never bypassed. But both Rudenstine and Knowles have acknowledged that the ad hoc has been skipped before.
"It has been done on rare occasions for decades, and it signals no change at all [in the tenure process]," Knowles said.