Word: caucus
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Over the past year, Faculty members consolidated their power through two groups—the Faculty Council, FAS’s elected, 18-member highest body, and the Caucus of Chairs, a newer, less formal group. The professors used their increased power to act against Summers, whose leadership style and stances on several issues they disliked, and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, whom they perceived as mishandling FAS affairs...
...following the resignations of Kirby in January and Summers in February, Faculty Council and Caucus members say they will continue their active participation in FAS governance out of a sense of duty...
...Faculty Council and the Caucus of Chairs broke through the traditional boundary between faculty members and the University’s highest-ranking administrators when they arranged to meet with the members of the secretive Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body...
Though their immediate impetus for action may have disappeared, members of the Council and the Caucus of Chairs say the events of the past year have left them feeling a duty to air their views on issues of FAS governance...
...Pence, a lawyer and former radio and television host, is chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the caucus of House conservatives, but the group did not offer the plan because it?s split on how to handle immigration overhaul. Pence?s official biography calls him ?a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order...