March 12, 1999
Head of Ethnic-Studies Program at NYU Loses Bid for Tenure, Then Wins; U. of North Carolina Seeks to Lure 2 Prominent Scholars From Yale
A colleague's sharply critical letter helped persuade a committee at New York University to deny tenure to John Kuo Wei Tchen. But a week later, 50 other letters helped persuade the administration to grant him that plum.
Last month, a promotion-and-tenure committee voted 8 to 2 against granting tenure to Mr. Tchen, a visiting associate professor of history, who was hired in 1996 to direct a new program in
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