In an e-mail message she wrote: "All faculty members are held to the same standards in the tenure process.

It's true that you've given good service up until now, and that will be remembered in your tenure process, in spite of your limited publications.

He also denied that the college had discriminated against Asians in the tenure process.

Mr. Silber rejects the charge about undue interference in the tenure process.

The tenure process makes it difficult to remove principals or to alter their duties, but tenured teachers in administrative jobs have no such protection.

Although the tenure process differs from one institution to another, the first review of a candidate's work is usually made by tenured colleagues in the same department.

The whole problem, though, is that university presses were set up to publish precisely these kinds of books, and the tenure process depends on our decisions.

Mr. Vorenberg has said Ms. Dalton received fair treatment in the tenure process.

"Colleges should take a look at things like whether low student-faculty ratios really improve teaching, and the extent to which the tenure process prohibits needed flexibility."

Bloomerberg also wished to have students test scores incorporated in the tenure process.