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...while Summers says he has denied tenure to fewer professors than Rudenstine, his involvement in ad hoc committees has aroused some of the fiercest reactions from faculty...
Summers has taken his involvement in ad hocs as an opportunity to shape departments as disparate as microbiology and theology, electrical engineering and constitutional law, but professors say that some of Summers’ vetoes have been made without adequate understanding of the field under review and that the president should defer more to departments...
Many professors say that on ad hoc tenure committees—advisory committees that vet tenure candidates before the University president decides whether or not to grant the candidate tenure—Summers aggressively pushes his favored candidates over others and show favoritism towards certain subfields within a discipline, stifling a department’s ability to make its own appointments...
...concern is not so much the structure of the ad hoc committees as the President’s role on those occasions,” says Judith L. Ryan, who is the acting chair of the Germanic languages and literature department and is a member of the group of chairs...
Consultants from McKinsey & Co. recently predicted that newspapers could lose $4 billion in classified-ad revenue by 2007 because of the rise of websites like eBay, Craig's List and Monster. How threatened do you feel...