Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael Spence created the committee because the department had been unable to agree on tenure appointments. By discussing potential senior candidates with the department before they are voted on, the committee is supposed to insure that the department's tenure candidates do not get rejected by the traditional ad hoc committee or by President Derek...
There was this ad hoc nature of everyday life. For black people, anybody ! might do anything at any moment. Two miles in any direction, you may run into Quakers who feed you or Klansmen who kill you -- you don't know. When you leave the plantation, you are leaving not only what you know, you are leaving your family...
...Harvard's system currently works, Nord's administrative duties were not even considered in her tenure review. And, despite the support of her department's senior faculty, Nord was denied a lifetime post by an ad hoc committee of outside scholars earlier this spring...
Because senior faculty are asked to evaluate candidates for tenure around the country, to travel and speak at conferences and to sit on other universities' ad hoc committees, the amount of time they spend doing service work is considerably more than what junior faculty spend, Vendler asserts...
Ruttenburg added that ad hoc committeesunfairly compared junior faculty's research withthat of the leaders in the field who have had moretime to publish. She also said ad hoc committeemembers often are not specialists in the field ofa tenure candidate...