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With last year's tenure denials of Peter Berkowitz and Bonnie Honig still fresh in many minds, many question whether or not Harvard's tenure system is the best one possible. The closed-door process is cloaked in mystery, leaving many confused about the qualifications necessary to receive tenure...
Harvard's confidential tenure process--and the ad hoc committee in particular--has come under fire with last spring's tenure denials of Associate Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz and Bonnie Honig, now a tenured professor at Northwestern University...
Some observers have alleged improprieties in the makeup of Berkowitz's ad hoc committee, which did not recommend him for tenure...
...committees and all the proceedings and documentation," he told The Crimson, "are, as they have always been, strictly confidential." Other universities have standing committees that determine tenure offers, but Knowles sure is right about Harvard. To determine the membership of the ad hoc committee that discussed Peter Berkowitz's tenure bid, for example, Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson '60, actually used a prominent private investigator...
...will be very glad to have [Berkowitz]teaching at Harvard for another year, but I amdisappointed that, despite his wonderful record ofpublication, he has been unable to find a teachingposition else-where," Mansfield said