Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gown to order. If the Coop really intends to offer students a choice, then it should not prejudice this choice by such public comments. Mr. Argeros has revealed his pro-Cotrell & Leonard bias. How did this bias influence the Coop's refusal to boycott Cotrell & Leonard? Dave Shryock Ad Hoc Committee on Caps and Gowns
...same affliction strikes at the core of Harvard's system of promotion. Despite President Bok's assertion to the contrary, the mechanism of the tenuring process seems to deny the importance of teaching ability. In his address to students last April, Bok explained that for the ad hoc tenure committee to accept a candidate, he "must be the best person in the field available in the world." But as an academic 'field' is by necessity narrowly defined, in order to provide the department depth in one area, that doesn't leave much room for consideration of teaching. As one administrator...
...result of that view--most recently stated in his fifth open letter--Bok has strengthened the appointments process in many of the faculties and, unlike his counterparts elsewhere, chairs every ad hoc committee to review tenure appointments. At the proceedings, for which Bok takes anywhere from six to 20 hours to prepare, the lawyer-turned-president, one Faculty member close to the process says, "takes an active and leading part in questioning the witnesses from the departments." Departments know that they cannot slide a candidate past Bok, who turns down 10 to 15 per cent of all recommendations...
Radcliffe abdicated its responsibility for undergraduate women by eliminating the Forum, Angela Giral, chairman of the ad hoc committee on women at Harvard and Radcliffe, said in her opening remarks...
...Forum funded and staffed the activities of the ad hoc committee, and Giral added that the budget cuts would severely curtail the work of the intra-departmental panel, which sponsored Saturday's meeting...