Word: dreben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After steering the GSAS through "a very critical juncture in the graduate school's history," as he terms it, Dreben took a year of leave from the Faculty to settle into his new position as chairman of the Society of Fellows, which he still holds...
...next year, 1977, Rosovsky again tapped Dreben, this time for his current position, special assistant to the dean, which is where his role in the ad hoc process comes...
Because "the people you want are the very people who are booked up years in advance," according to Dreben, it takes at least six weeks to convene an ad hoc committee. But Dreben adds that he is constantly amazed that the process runs so smoothly and defends it as a principle guarantor of the quality of Harvard's Faculty...
Professors say that Dreben's wide-ranging academic background reinforces his administrative duties, which also include making certain that the department's dossier of a tenure nomination is complete. This is the file of papers the department assembles to buck its case for a tenure nomination...
...Dreben downplays this role, saying that he only "makes sure that the case satisfies the paper standards,"--nothing substantive...