January 22, 1999

Stanford Offers Historian a Second Shot at Tenure; Dickinson College Draws New Chief From Academe's For-Profit Sector

By ROBIN WILSON and JULIANNE BASINGER

Nearly two years after a panel of deans shot down her tenure bid at Stanford University, Karen Sawislak has been offered reappointment in the history department there and another crack at proving her credentials.

In a letter to Ms. Sawislak last month, Stanford's president, Gerhard Casper, said the deans who denied her tenure the first time had done nothing wrong. The president said he was giving Ms. Sawislak

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