Word: peer-reviewed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...favor of secret deliberations regarding faculty hirings and promotions. In fact, a good many academics would welcome a more open evaluation process. The prevalence of cronyism and prejudice in faculty advancement has diminished in recent years, but the only way to stamp it out entirely is to make these peer-review deliberations open to those with a legitimate involvement...
...marked contrast to Dinnan's defiance and the support he got from his university, the confrontation between the University of California at Berkeley and the U.S. Department of Labor began with compliance. In 1978 Berkeley administrators allowed federal investigators to see confidential peer-review documents regarding women. But several weeks later, when Labor Department agents asked to photocopy 466 of the documents and send them to Washington as part of a permanent affirmative-action file, Berkeley balked. Once they became Government documents, administrators reasoned, the Freedom of Information Act would allow third parties to gain access to them...
Already, many Berkeley departments warn faculty members when sending out requests for peer-review letters that the information requested in confidence may eventually be divulged-as a result of Government actions. One department chairman recalls that eight of ten people asked to write appraisals of one recent tenure candidate did not reply. What troubles professors and department heads is that the reluctance of faculty members to make appraisals now seems strongest in the cases of the weakest-and potentially most litigious-tenure candidates...