Word: peering
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...Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred, assessing the impact of the recent Supreme Court decision to make peer evaluations admissable in tenure disputes...
Herron has little patience for the "academic privelege" arguments made by several universities. Discrimination in peer reviews, she says, is "subject to the same kind of censure as any other anti-intellectual [comments...
...university raises here essentially two claims. First, it urges us to recognize a qualified common-law privilege against disclosure of confidential peer review materials. Second, it asserts a First Amendment right of `academic freedom against wholesale disclosure of the contested documents...
...Indeed, if there is a `smoking gun' to be found that demonstrates discrimination in tenure decisions, it is likely to be tucked away in peer review files...
...addition to being remote and attenuated, the injury to academic freedom claimed by the petitioner is also speculative. As the EEOC points out, confidentiality is not the norm in all peer review systems... Moreover, some disclosure of peer evaluations would take place even if petitioner's `special necessity' tests were adopted. Thus, the `chilling effect' petitioner fears is at most only incrementally worsened by the absence of a privilege. Finally, we are not so ready as petitioner seems to be to assume the worst about those in the academic community. Although it is possible that some evaluators may become less...