September 29, 2000
Court Case Examines Tenure Rules at U. of Oregon
Does the president of the University of Oregon have the power to informally make the provost the final authority in tenure cases? A federal appeals court last month called that an "important and unresolved state law issue" and sent the question to the Oregon Supreme Court for review.
The dispute is part of a 1998 action brought against the university by Kevin M. Matthews, who was denied tenure in 1997 when he was an assistant professor of
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