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...conclude that the ad hoc committee system has on the whole served the faculty well in bringing independent judgment to bear on the process of recommendation for appointments without limit of time. Ad hoc committees have served a variety of functions beyond that of reviewing single recommendations. They have recommended one among a series of appointments proposed by a department; they have developed a list of possible appointments and ranked them; they have reviewed the desirability of a department entering a new specialty; and they have pointed out gaps and deficiencies in departments. The use of ad hoc committees should...
...Committee recommends that greater use be made of more general ad hoc committees which might be convened periodically for a department, a group of departments, or related specialties in order to review policies and problems, discuss anticipated vacancies, canvass eligible candidates, and endorse a list of names for possible appointment. Such general ad hoc committees, not confined to the review of a single recommendation, could also elicit independent judgment about the needs of a whole area of knowledge, suggest expansion into areas in which talent is available, and recommend withdrawal from other areas. This procedure should reduce the total number...
...optimistic move, the Ad Board also voted to allow the team to continue to the NCAA final round if it should win the regionals. Harvard, the Eastern League champion, boasts a 16-7 record for the year...
Dunlop's Committee recommends few changes in the mechanics of recruitment. It endorses the use of ad hoc committees (groups of scholars outside the department who are called in to approve or reject a department's candidate for a tenured position). But the report deplores what it bluntly calls "the glacial tempo" at which these committees operate. In the interim between first contacts and final ad hoc committee approval a man is often offered huge salary increases by his present employer and turns down Harvard. The report documents in exhaustive detail the complicated recommendations for multiple appointments or departmental restructuring...
Indirectly, the parietals decision demonstrates the value of including students on ad hoc subcommittees of standing Faculty committees. Such arrangements clearly increase communication between students and Faculty...