Peter Berkowitz, an associate professor in the Government Department who was denied tenure last spring, has accepted a one-year extension of his current appointment. Berkowitz, whose denial sparked a controversy over the University's tenure policies, said he is still considering his options for the future.

"As things stand now I am intending to be here next year, and, of course, I have to make plans beyond that," Berkowitz said.

Berkowitz's legal adviser in the tenure controversy, Charles R. Nesson '60, Weld professor of law at Harvard Law School, has released the names of five scholars whom he believes served on the ad hoc committee which considered Berkowitz's tenure bid.

The membership of such committees is ordinarily kept secret by the University as a matter of policy.

Nesson published the names on a Web page for his winter-term class, "Evidence," which has studied and discussed aspects of the Berkowitz case.

"I want the entire case to serve as a teaching and learning vehicle for how one puts a case together," Nesson said.

According to Nesson's Web page, the five scholars Berkowitz's on ad hoc committee were Jerome Bruner, a noted psychologist and professor at New York University; Leon Kass, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago; Ellen Kennedy, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania; Isaac Kramnick, a political theory professor at Cornell University; and Maria M. Tatar, professor of German at Harvard. Bruner co-founded Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies in 1960 while a professor here.

Harvard spokesperson Alex Huppe refused comment on the specifics of the Berkowitz case or on the makeup of the ad hoc committee. Huppe reiterated that University policy is to "not comment on individual tenure cases."

Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles also refused comment. "The membership of tenure ad hoc committees and all the proceedings and documentation are, as they have always been, strictly confidential," he said.

The Web page credits the list of committee members to Terry Lenzner, a private investigator retained and paid for by Martin H. Peretz, a lecturer in social studies and owner of The New Republic magazine. Lenzner has also been retained by President Clinton's attorneys in the controversy over the President's alleged relationship with former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky.

Kass, Kramnick and Tatar would not confirm or deny that they served on the committee. Bruner and Kennedy were unavailable for comment.

Lenzner said he was "very confident" of his findings.

The composition of the Berkowitz committee as reported by Lenzner differs from typical tenure ad hoc committees at Harvard.

Huppe said ad hoc tenure review committees generally consist of three Harvard scholars and two members external to Harvard. The non-Harvard members of the committee are usually experts inthe same field as the prospective appointment andthe two members from Harvard are familiar withrelated fields, according to Huppe.

The five members of the committee are joined byUniversity president Neil L. Rudenstine, Dean ofthe Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and the associatedean responsible for composing the ad hoccommittee.

Huppe emphasized that Rudenstine and Knowleshave no influence on the final composition of thead hoc committee, and are not aware of acommittee's membership until dossiers aredistributed for consideration before the ad hocmeeting.