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...member of the junior Faculty has a right to tenure at Harvard. But every member of the junior Faculty who rises through the ranks and fully performs his duties under his contract has a right to a fair process of review, and at the very least a process consistent with Harvard's own formal procedures...
...believe that in my tenure review Harvard failed to comply with its own formal procedures, institutional policies and norms of fundamental fairness enshrined in them. The associate provost of the University vigorously led opposition against me within my department (which nevertheless recommended me for tenure); the ad hoc committee, which advised the president about my tenure and was assembled by the office of the dean where the associate provost's spouse serves as associate dean for academic affairs, was severely flawed; and my candidacy for tenure was denied in April 1997 without explanation by the University president...
What is uncommon in my case is the extent of Harvard's disregard of its own rules for tenure review and its flouting of basic requirements of fair process. What also sets my case apart is that a member of the Harvard senior faculty, with imagination, audacity and an unusually lively sense of fair play took an interest in what happened and concluded that something should and could be done about...
...each independently, suggested to us that instead of the Joint Committee on Appointments we should go through the grievance procedure administered by Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Initially, we reacted with incredulity. How, we asked, could the dean of a particular Faculty review a decision taken by the University's president? How could we expect fairness in a process run by the very dean's office that assembled the ad hoc committee whose flaws I was contesting? How could the dean of FAS preside over an appeal that alleges violations in the procedures...
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