The University in December offered one of the four tenure slots to Theda R. Skocpol after four years of controversy involving a sex discrimination grievance filed by Skocpol

Last week, Bok approved the tenure nomination-of quantitative sociologist Michael Hannon, a Cornell University professor for another of the four slots, Sorensen said

Neither Skocpol nor Hannon have responded to Harvard's offer, and the department has yet to form a search committee to fill the fourth slots

Professors who receive tenure are guaranteed employment until the mandatory retirement age of 70, To receive tenure, a professor must receive a majority recommendation from the department, and approval by Bok and the Corporation.

Star said he accepted Princeton University's longstanding offer of a lifetime post after being informed of Bok's decision

Starr is currently on sabbatical the Institute for Advanced Study, a research center in Princeton N.J. He said he is still working on issues related to health care, and also on a variety of questions related to information technology. He is crediting a book on the politics of national statistics

Starr graduated summa cum laude from Columbia. He was a member of the Society of Fellow from 1975-1978, when he received his Ph D from Harvard

Starr's Pulitzer Prize-wining book examines the rise to power of the medical profession, as well as reforms and cries in the American health care syste