Word: processing
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...appeal does not question the need for expert judgment in the tenure process. Competent and unbiased judgement is essential to the integrity of formal procedure...
...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 that he is responsible for administering...
Under the FAS grievance procedures, the first step in the formal process is for the FAS Docket Committee to perform a "preliminary screening." The Docket Committee is required to advise the dean to form a Faculty committee to consider the merits of the grievance unless it finds the grievance to be "clearly without merit...
...that lacks authority to sit in judgment as a deliberative body. Yet the elected members of the Docket Committee have had the question of whether my grievance is "clearly without merit" under "consideration" for now approaching five months, once again threatening to make a mockery of Harvard's own process. And time is of the essence for a member of the junior Faculty who must move...
Rather, my appeal challenges a process in which extreme secrecy is used to cover bias, conflict of interest, lack of competence and an utter absence of accountability...