Word: thompson
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Indeed, in his Jan. 12 statement to The Crimson, Professor Thompson himself indicates that after playing is "usual role" in departmental deliberations he wrote his "customary letter" to Dean Knowles. But the very purpose of this "customary letter"-a confidential letter that is in fact a formal feature of tenure review in the FAS-is to enable all tenured faculty members to play a role in tenure review beyond departmental deliberations and have their candid opinions, unconstrained by pressures from colleagues, heard by the deans, the ad hoc committee, and the president...
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...
...easy to see, however, that Dean Thompson is mistaken...
...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...
Consequently, Professor Thompson's participation in my tenure review created a conflict of interest not only for his wife, the associate dean for academic affairs, but also for Jeremy Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and all the members of Dean Knowles's staff, including former faculty Associate Dean Peter Ellison, a scholar of the biological bases of behavior and a professor in the Department of Anthropology, who assembled the ad hoc committee that advised President Rudenstine on my tenure...