Word: hoc
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...proper decision--University President Neil L. Rudenstine. The process limits the influence of the most qualified judges of candidates, the senior Faculty of their departments. Although the majority of those reviewed by Rudenstine--who is advised by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and five-person ad hoc committee--receive tenure, it is not uncommon for candidates endorsed by their departments to be denied a tenured position. President Rudenstine has an unlimited authority to offer or deny tenure to candidates, regardless of how strong the department's support...
...Berkowitz's charge that his ad hoc committee was poorly constituted, the Docket Committee responded with a counter-charge, suggesting Berkowitz misinterpreted the Appointment Handbook's guidelines for convening an ad hoc committee...
...their letter to Berkowitz, which he provided to The Crimson, the Docket Committee imputed to Berkowitz the belief that he was entitled to an ad hoc committee of specialists in his particular field--the history of political philosophy. The elected members then suggested that this was a faulty expectation...
...recognized experts" in his complaint, the elected members wrote they could find no "requirement that any member of an ad hoc tenure review committee, much less the committee as a whole, be expert in the narrow subject-matter areas of the tenure candidate...
Berkowitz, in his retort, denied the premise of the Docket Committee's argument. He said he never asserted that Harvard policy required the formation of an ad hoc committee of scholars whose specialties exactly matched...