Word: processing
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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...
...unfair tenure process, I am told, is not unusual at Harvard. Aspiring junior faculty who are cut down by it are expected to go away complaisantly...
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...
With the help of Harvard Law School Professor Charles Nesson, I initiated an appeal now a year and a half ago and am still appealing to Harvard through its own procedures. From the outset we have sought no more than fair process...
...dismissed, not by the Joint Committee, but by Harvard Vice President and General Counsel Anne Taylor, who said she had investigated my complaint and found it to be without merit, and who, yes, represents the president whose decision I am appealing. Apparently, callousness to conflict of interest pervades the process...