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...precisely by participating in departmental deliberations in the normal fashion after becoming associate provost of the University (in September of 1996 shortly before my tenure review began) that Prof. Thompson compromised the integrity of the tenure review process. For by opposing my tenure in the Department of Government in his role as professor while serving in the office of President Rudenstine, the final judge in tenure review at Harvard, Prof. Thompson violated the fundamental norm of procedural fairness that prohibits one from serving as both judge and party to a cause...
Third, in the Dec. 14 Crimson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Carol J. Thompson declared in response to the charge that her husband, as associate provost of the University and a member of the Office of the President, stands in a supervisory relation to her in her official position in the Office of the Dean, "None of his functions in any way relate...
...associate provost of the University (), Professor Thompson advises President Rudenstine on a complex and sprawling variety of academic issues connected to the tasks of the Office of the Dean. Since President Rudenstine has declared that "appointing tenured faculty and appointing deans are the two most important things I do" ("Behind the Crimson Curtain," Lingua Franca, Oct. 1998, p. 32), Professor Thompson, as a key member of the president's staff, is inextricably involved in President Rudenstine's decisions about hiring and firing deans...
...pursuing over the past few months the informal and formal mechanisms laid out in the FAS "Guidelines for Resolution of Faculty Grievances," Professor Nesson and I have been following the path that it was suggested to Professor Nesson we take by former Secretary of the University Michael Roberts, Provost Harvey Fineberg, and Vice President and General Counsel Anne Taylor. Indeed, in a letter of Sept. 17, 1998, John Fox, Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, writing on behalf of Dean Knowles, also directed me to the "Guidelines." Surely Dean Knowles will want to investigate promptly the identity...
...Jerry Green, Harvard's former provost, describes it, the committee gives final approval to all promotions, appointments, and changes in title. It meets periodically to sign off on all appointments and to relay to the Corporation and the Board of Overseers what's been going on. "It's the final blessing," Green says...