Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe NSA Representative, 1965-68; National Supervisory Board of NSA, 1966-67; Dorm Committee; Freshman Chorus; Young Dems Hunger Strike for Housing; Ad Hoc Committee for Housing and Student Participation; Vice-Chairman, Junior Parents Weekend; Co-chairman, Combined Charities, 1966; Representative-at-large, Student-Faculty Advisory Council...
...other referendum is open to all graduate students. It is sponsored by an ad hoc organization called the Graduate Student Organizing Committee and is the result of that group's opposition to the exclusiveness of the GSA vote, according to Organizing Committee member Margaret A. Theeman, a second-year graduate student...
...recent plans, if fully enacted, would give students more academic responsibility. Fourth-course pass-fail may entice students to experiment in unfamiliar fields. And Master Chalmers has proposed that students should be allowed to devise their own fields of concentration under the direction of an ad hoc committee if the existing fields do not fit their interests. The idea is not a new one, but its acceptance would be. Interdisciplinary study, despite its success in specific projects at Harvard and M.I.T.'s research centers, is strangely threatening to some departments. Educational theorists, such as David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, explain...
...senior members (those with permanent rank) make the decisions. The departments always initiate recommendations for appointments within their discipline. These decisions are rubberstamped by the Dean and Governing Boards when non-permanent Faculty members are concerned; decisions on permanent status are usually subject to favorable review by ad hoc committees, consisting of scholars outside the nominating department and appointed by the Dean. The Corporation (the President and Fellows), which legally holds the authority, accepts the ad hoc recommendation in almost all cases. Therefore when students justifiably complain that teaching ability as well as scholarly reputation should be a criterion...
...student's program couldn't be fit into any department, but was judged to have academic merit, Dean Ford or the CEP would set up an ad hoc Committee on degrees--effectively allowing the student to create his own major...