Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...criticisms of Levine it would be unwise for him to admit to them. In fact, Levine never explained why his current research grant is to study the cultural history of the depression and not specifically related to Afro-American Studies. Neither did we think that members of the Ad Hoc Committee were good "third party" sources. According to the EEOC findings against Harvard the Ad Hoc Committee, which reviewed Ephraim Isaac for tenure in 1975, was purposely biased against Isaac by University officials...
...have seen at Harvard numerous other miscarriages of academic justice executed by "unbiased" Ad Hoc Committees (e.g. Molly Nolan and Arnold Harberger). Because we know the history of academic fairness at Harvard, statements from members of the Ad Hoc Committees mean little...
Burton S. Dreben, professor of Philosophy and Dean Rosovsky's special assistant on forming ad hoc tenure committees, also agreed with the views Bok expresses in the letter...
...YEARS, the Afro-American Studies Department has lived from one crisis to the next, always lacking the stability and the faculty necessary to establish itself. After years of neglect, the Faculty has finally taken steps to rebuild the department. Recently, Dean Rosovsky, after an extensive search by an ad hoc committee, offered tenure in the department to three scholars in an attempt to establish a core of committed faculty who will try to set the department on a steady course...
...Union than the U.N. General Assembly's mildly worded statement, fortnight earlier, calling for a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. In addition, the Islamic summit, to which the Afghanistan government was invited but failed to attend, also managed to get the feuding Afghan rebel groups to form an ad hoc united front: the Islamic Alliance for the Liberation of Afghanistan. The front's spokesman, Burhanuddin Rabbani, former head of the faculty of Islamic law at Kabul University, told the conference that although Soviet troops controlled the main Afghan cities, roads and airports, the rest of the country was largely...