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Knowles says that some professors have important obligations to their families and do not want to move.
"The kind of people we invite from outside are likely to be distinguished and well recognized, particularly by their home institutions," Knowles says. "Aiming high, will therefore always be harder. More than half of the turndowns are because of family reasons, some of the other reasons are cultural."
"Universities are no different in this sense from the commercial world-- where inviting a CEO from another company...is commonplace--or in any other competitive marketplace," Knowles says.
It can be a long and tiring process. But Knowles says he is not disturbed by the number of professors who turn down tenure.
"You might like to look at it the other way," Knowles says. "That is, about 70 percent of our offers succeed...Actually our overall success rate is a bit higher than it was in the eighties."