Document 55

February 18, 1999

Dear Professors Berkowitz and Nesson:

The Joint Committee on Appointments discussed your letter of January 19 at its first meeting following receipt of your letter, together with the accompanying materials in which you challenge the composition of an ad hoc tenure review committee and the participation by Professor Dennis Thompson in Faculty of Arts and Sciences proceedings related to that review.

In view of the nature of your claims and their pending consideration within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, I have been asked to inform you that the Joint Committee on Appointments is not-- as stated in reply to your previous correspondence--an appropriate or available forum for addressing those claims.

Sincerely,

Marc Goodheart
Secretary of the University


Professor Peter Berkowitz
Department of Government
Littauer Center 323