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Last week's decision by the Sociology Department not to recommend Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, for a tenured position is the latest example. Because of Skocpol's stature in the field, Sociology's decision seems inexplicable in many ways. Last summer, she received two prestigious awards for her book; students and colleagues consider her an excellent and concerned teacher; and four universities--which house some of the top sociology departments in the country--want her to join their faculties...
...secretive aspect of the system often gives the impression that decisions are made using unfair criteria--such as gender--particularly when departments recommend against promotion for their own associate professors. Because the "first order of eminence" guidelines are vague and because the senior faculty members who take part in departmental tenure votes discuss those decisions about as readily as the government provides top secret military information to the Kremlin, rejected junior faculty members often have only a hazy, idea of why their departments didn't want them. In the Skocpol decision, for example, James A. Davis, chairman of the Sociology...
...overwhelming majority of sociology graduate students last month supported a resolution calling on the department to recommend Skocpol for tenure, Peter Bearman, Sociology graduate student coordinator, said yesterday...
Senior members of the Sociology Department voted last week not to recommend Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, for a tenured professorship...
...school staff. Among the weighty questions: Can he hold a pencil? Play with others? Put a puzzle together? "We want somebody who is compatible with our philosophy of education," says Assistant Headmaster Bruce Knee, adding: "If a boy comes in and starts throwing blocks, we'll recommend he go to nursery school...