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Harvard Professor Resigns
The astronomer Margaret Geller
joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor in 1980. She was the first
woman on the Harvard faculty to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences
and she received a MacArthur “genius” grant. In May 1997 she was
offered an endowed chair at Harvard. All males who held this endowed chair were
tenured, but she was not offered tenure. After years of discussion she resigned
in May 2001.(Source: Chronicle of Higher
Education, 5/18/01)
Harvard to Release Confidential Tenure Documents
Peter Berkowitz, who taught at
Harvard from 1990 to 1999, sued the university in March 2001, alleging that it
had failed to follow its own procedures concerning tenure complaints. A
Massachusetts Superior Court ruling grants courts the authority to review
university-committee decisions. This ruling forces Harvard to release
confidential tenure documents—an event which has occurred only once
before. (Source: Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/26/01)
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