Lifting the Cloak of Secrecy From Tenure

Court order results in unprecedented access to files at Ohio State U.

By Douglas Lederman and Carolyn J. Mooney

The Ohio State University considers dozens of scholars for tenure every year. In academic 1993-94 it awarded academe's stamp of approval to a bird-song biologist, a band leader, a poet, a big-bang physicist, and many others. Among those it rejected were a folklorist...

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