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Thursday, December 21, 2006
Very Bad Outcome"I will either see the Provost resign and my hard-earned tenure granted at MIT, or I will die defiantly right outside his office." When something this bizarre happens -- a professor who responds to the denial of tenure with a letter inviting colleagues to join him in a hunger strike outside the provost's office -- there's usually been a series of institutional failures. Failure to sense at the point of hiring that a person might be seriously unstable; failure to move quickly to correct a terrible hiring error once it's been made, or to neutralize the person hired so that he or she can't do too much damage... Not that the second guessing I'm doing here is all that helpful. ---boston business journal-- |