Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simultaneously followed the dictates of the ad hoc procedures, which permit each side to challenge a member of the committee. Both Hartman and Kilbridge exercised their challenges, and the Rogers Committee brought the appeal committee membership back up to five within a week...
...which lasts an average of 34 years, is a more serious matter than a term appointment of three or five years. The President of the University must approve each tenure appointment. Ever since the Committee of Eight Report revised the system in 1938, the President has convened an ad hoc committee to advise him in his decision...
After a department meets and recommends a candidate for tenure, the department chairman must submit to the Dean a list of scholars, outside as well as inside the University. From that list, the Dean and President select an ad hoc committee to judge the proposed appointment. This ad hoc committee then considers a pile of written material prepared and collected by the department chairman. Such material includes letters from the chairman and other members of the department, opinions of scholars inside and outside the University, a biography and bibliography of the nominee, a description of the search procedure...
...hoc committee procedure is designed to help the President judge a candidate's qualifications and ensure that the department has checked outside the University in searching for the most eminent scholar available. The system also helps watchdog the distribution of tenure appointments among the fields within a department. Sometimes a department selects more than one name and asks the President and the ad hoc committee to choose the best person. More often, it proposes one candidate and requests his confirmation...
...special committee's recommendations were no doubt important. But senior members of the Department who testified before the ad hoc committee say that President Pusey himself played an extraordinarily energetic role. "He was clearly in command," one Geology professor recalled. Pusey easily dominated the men he had asked to serve on the ad hoc committee. One of these men had also sat on the special review committee...