A week after DePaul University caused an uproar by denying tenure to two professors, administrators and faculty members are arguing over whether the two can appeal the decisions.

Norman G. Finkelstein, an assistant professor of political science, and Mehrene E. Larudee, an assistant professor of international studies, say they are following the faculty handbook in seeking independent reviews of their tenure cases, but administrators disagree. “It’s the university’s position that there is no appeal,” a spokeswoman said this afternoon.

Faculty leaders, however, aren’t taking no for an answer. “We’re going ahead with the appeal,” said Gil Gott, chair of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Faculty Governance Council and an associate professor of international studies. In a meeting this afternoon, the council voted unanimously to form a panel to investigate the tenure cases, and to send a letter “vigorously” protesting the decisions. The votes echo a similar resolution, passed on Wednesday by the universitywide Faculty Council, that reaffirms professors’ right to appeal.

Meanwhile, a group of students who have staged a migrating sit-in to protest the tenure denials, in the midst of final exams, will have to move again tonight. After three days in a conference room near the university president’s office, about a dozen students were ejected on Wednesday evening and then moved to the Lincoln Park student center. The center will close tonight at 1 a.m., and they will move into tents just outside the building, said Kathryn O. Weber, a junior majoring in history and political science. —Sierra Millman