Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Generally, when an appointment needs to be made, a department chooses the professor it would like to hire. After appointing an ad hoc committee to evaluate the professor in question, Bok then decides whether or not to approve the recommendation...
Last spring, when the department voted to grant tenure to Paul E. Starr, an associate professor in sociology, Bok vetoed the decision after a split vote of the ad hoc committee. Starr, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, "The Social Transformation of American Medicine," was the first junior faculty member to be recommended for tenure by the Sociology Department in 16 years. Starr now holds a tenured position at Princeton University...
...hoc committee was then formed in order to evaluate Skocpol's scholarship, and the vote of the committee was split, according to sources in the department...
...Undergraduate Council should consider any issue brought to it by its constituents. Why arbitrarily limit the issues it can consider? The Dowling Committee structured the Undergraduate Council to allow flexibility. If an issue has no place in an existing committee, an ad-hoc committee can be appointed to examine it. Then, it is brought to the full council for a vote. If that issue is bizarre, useless, or irrelevant it will fail (or the constituents will vote their reps out of office for supporting...
...first is the "Report of the Committee on Relationships Between the Harvard Community and United States Intelligence Agencies" (Intelligence Agency Guidelines). The guidelines contained in the report were announced by President Derek Bok on May 20, 1977. The guidelines reflect the position of the Ad Hoc Committee and the President, with which I fully agree, that Harvard as an institution should not prohibit the acceptance of research support from the CIA or any other agency, so long as the terms and conditions associated with the funds conform with institutional research policies and the existence of the agreement is made public...