Word: hoc
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...five weeks, she was attending class until a little over a week ago, when “Sorbonne mobilized and the students blocked” the entrances. Shanahan began losing class time as early as March 2, and now she has no choice but to take a special ad-hoc course organized by Columbia with other American students. “The study abroad program directors in France are offering support to our students, arranging ways for them to continue their studies during the strikes, and advising them to exercise caution and avoid student demonstrations,” wrote Harvard...
...Peer institutions like Yale have not only divested from a broader range of companies, but more importantly, have set down concrete criteria to guide investments,” Bhatnagar wrote. “Harvard's current system of reviewing investments is ad-hoc and inadequate,” he added. “This explains the fact that while Sinopec and PetroChina met the same criteria, there was a one-year gap in Harvard's divestment...
...established some time ago in a different business world.” Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) President Brian Feinstein ’07 said that the College maintains minimal contact with student businesses. “Our relationship with the University in terms of specifics works on an ad hoc basis,” he said. Feinstein added that the relationship between HSA and the University is currently limited to work on the Harvard Pub Commission. The student organization’s bylaws require that University officials sit on its board of directors. Six University officials currently serve...
...UC’s final decision to fund Mission Hill certainly alleviated the group’s monetary crisis, but the ad hoc grant decision set an unfortunate precedent. Many student organizations had been operating under the assumption that the UC does not fund transportation costs, yet the UC’s website—as well as the UC’s communications with certain clubs—has relayed information to the contrary. Ultimately, its erratic application of vague rules amounts to a value judgment of the relative merit of organizations. More importantly, the guidelines’ uneven...
...Mission Hill incident simply demonstrated that ad hoc awards and human judgment play too large a role in the grants process. We recognize that evaluation of grant applications will undoubtedly require some human element, but such subjectivity ought to be minimized in the name of fairness. Such value judgments should only play a part in the development of these rules, which should consider, among other factors, the relative necessity of funding to the particular group in question...