Word: hoc
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They see Deborah A. Nord, an expert on the Victorian novel who last spring did the nearly impossible--gaining the endorsement of the English Department for tenure at the University. In a shocking move, President Derek C. Bok and an ad-hoc committee of outside scholars rejected her for a senior position...
...must assemble a faculty committee (along the lines of last year's Verba Committee on faculty affirmative action) to suggest sweeping changes in Harvard's tenure system. The use of secretive and capricious ad-hoc committees to advise President Bok on tenure cases should be abolished and replaced by a Faculty-wide system in which no department could block tenure appointments at will. The University should institute a tenure-track system, which would guarantee each junior faculty member a realistic chance of receiving a tenured position...
While Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III granted a room to the Undergraduate Council's ad-hoc committee on minority and women faculty hiring for the session after a day's delay, he said he was not pleased that the students insisted on creating a scheduling conflict...
...many council members said the ad hoc committees must remember that they are ultimately responsible to the council. That's why several council members were disappointed that the council did not flatly endorse the 2 p.m. lecture time, just to make that message clear...
...think most people feel the council has control over the ad hoc committees," Bramson said, adding that "this is a very unusual case, and its hard for me to imagine another case where this could come...