Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ploymath professor of Philosophy by still engaged in his formidable administrative task of organizing the ad hoc committees that culminate the tenure-granting process, despite technically being on leave...
...three years after Skocpol's departure for the University of Chicago--where she recently gained a full professorship--President Bok is assembling an ad hoc committee of scholars to reconsider her tenure. And, according to sources close to the process, the president is stepping very carefully to avoid a lawsuit...
...much politicking goes into a departmental recommendation? Who picks members of the ad hoc committees that advise Bok on who to choose? Which candidates are set off against each other...
...addition, says Professor of Philosophy Burton S. Dreben '49, the man who organizes the ad hoc committee that review all departmental nominations for tenure, "You're not going to get individual professors from other schools to participate without the promise of secrecy...
...internal checks include the review of departmental recommendations by top Faculty administrators before they are sent to Bok, who has the final say on all appointments. And, officials say, the Harvard perspective is balanced by the professors and experts from other schools who sit on the ad hoc committees...