The Kennedy School asks for a list of people to contact for recommendations in addition to a candidate's CV.
The Medical and Dental Schools ask tenure candidates who have focused on instructing to turn in a self-report detailing their involvement in courses, committees, mentoring activities and professional societies.
While the School of Public Health does not ask the candidates for any materials besides a CV and statement of research activities, the search committee submits a report on citizenship activity in addition to reports on teaching and research.
The Law School also prepares extra materials, including a report on teaching that contains a classroom evaluation written by a tenured faculty member and information from interviews with students in the candidate's classes.
Such evaluations are available because the vast majority of candidates have previously taught there, according to Todd Rakoff, associate dean of the Law School.
"We have a strong tradition that we won't appoint anyone to the faculty who hasn't taught here, because we want to see how they teach with our students," Rakoff says. "We're pretty serious about that."
While applicants at the Law School must go through a comprehensive review of their teaching, wellknown candidates applying at the Kennedy School of Government may not be asked to submit anything about their teaching at all.
Open Searches
Most schools have a tenure method that ignores even the common denominator of the open search.
Open searches are usually characterized by advertisements in national journals and publications. For instance, the Kennedy School of Government specifies that the search committee place an advertisement for the position in The New York Times.
These searches usually result in applications from all over the world, says Gail Keeley, coordinator of academic services for the School of Education.
In closed searches, however, junior faculty looking for a promotion or notable outsiders may not be forced to compete against other applicants at all.
The School of Education's closed search process, known as a "target of opportunity" search, allows the candidate to bypass the normal process of culling names and go straight to a review of their qualifications in committee, as long as the faculty approves it.
The School of Public Health also has a closed search system for internal candidates. Instead of competing against resumes from world experts, those scholars must prove to a committee that they meet standards for tenure in order to become seriously considered as a candidate for tenure.
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