FYI, the professor also had the 6-1 vote of the college-wide promotion committee. It was not just the fellow department members. Seeing this, unless there really is something perfectly awful about this professor that hasn’t been publicized, then the university president needs also to improve the process below this final decision. What went wrong to get this tenure candidate that far in the process with such overwhelming support? It may be feasible to dump one candidate for tenure this way, but it can’t be an ongoing thing. If the process is flawed, then it has to be fixed and THAT is tough at a college that has a governance structure that simply is not comparable to the private sector.