Word: adhoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reviewing faculty and other appointments. While many other universities allow their faculties to select professors administration approval here is anything but a rubber stamp. There is Bok explains "certainly nothing more important than choosing key people--deans and faculty." As a result, he often laboriously reviews the work of adhoc appointment committees--composed of professors administrators and outside experts--and not infrequently vetoes a department's nomination. Just three months ago for example Bok rejected the Sociology Department's recommendation of tenure for Alfred Stepan a Yale University specialist in Latin American politics. Stepan--considered an unorthodox sociologist--was recommended...