I. Introduction...................
3
Back to the Alfalfa Seed Parable
Appeal of
Tenure and Promotion Denial
Dr. Karen
Strickler
June 7, 2000
Table of
Contents
I. Introduction...................
3
II.
Basis for the
appeal....
3
III.
Evidence of failure to comply with prescribed procedures and
abuse of discretion.....
4
IV. Evidence of
abuse of academic rights and privileges, inappropriate considerations, and abuse
of discretion: failure to uphold the right to academic freedom.......
6
V.
Evidence of
abuse of academic rights and privileges: maintaining an academic climate in
which women are at risk of failing, and in which affirmative action goals to
employ and promote women are not adequately met.................. 10
VI.
Summary
statement...
14
VII.
Notes
14
VIII. Appendices 15
1.
Time Line
2.
PSES and
College of Agriculture Criteria for Granting Tenure
3.
CV
4.
Professional
Portfolio
5.
Third
year review, Karen Strickler, July 1, 1996, and letters from Idaho and Oregon
Alfalfa Seed Commissions.
6.
Letter
from Dr. Larry O’Keeffe, June 1998 for Karen Strickler's file.
7.
Mentoring
Guidelines, Department of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences, and
Memorandum: Karen Strickler’s Mentoring Committee, Aug. 1998; and subsequent
e-mails.
8.
E-mails
to and from Ding Johnson, Division of Entomology chair, August 3-4, 1999.
9.
Letter of
support from Department Committee.
10.
Letter of
non-support from Dr.Weiss, and response from Dr. Strickler.
11.
Letters
from Outside Peer Reviews.
12.
Letter of
non-support from Dean Branen and response from Dr. Strickler.
13.
Letter to
Provost Pitcher, Feb. 2000, and Provost Pitcher’s letter to President Hoover.
14.
Selected
bibliography on gender differences in publication rates.
15.
Sonnert,
Gerhard and Gerald Holton, 1995. “Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender
Dimension”, Rutgers University Press, NJ. p. 152-154.
16.
Appeal to
Dean Branen, May 2000, and updates of publications.