Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hoc committee recommended to Dean Ford yesterday a compromise plan that would allow Dunster House residents to keep their dining hall until April 1 of next year...
...hoc committee passed on to Ford a plan already approved by Dunster House residents last week...
...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...
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...
...skill as a teacher now has virtually nothing to do with his chances of getting a tenured position at Harvard. The ad hoc committee system has considerable advantages of impartiality and expertise, but as one veteran of six or seven of these said last week, it makes a man's appointment hinge on what he has written and on what his colleagues say about him, since the committees usually have no information on his competence as a teacher, especially if he is at an outside university...