Word: hoc
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Fearing that this new provision—coupled with widespread problems with the required installation of a new national database of all foreign students—Casey, Ladd and University General Counsel Robert Iuliano formed an ad hoc focus committee over the summer to brainstorm strategies for avoiding problems that the year could bring...
...Four of the five members on the ad hoc committee assembled and approved by the Office of the Dean for the purpose of advising [former University President Neil L.] Rudenstine on my tenure showed bias, conflict of interest, or lack of relevant expertise,” Berkowitz wrote in his letter...
Berkowitz also claimed that the presence of Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis F. Thompson on the ad hoc committee compromised the procedure for several reasons. Among them were Thompson’s combination of several positions in the University’s central administration, as well as his marriage to former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Carol J. Thompson, who was “administratively connected to my tenure review in a variety of potentially decisive ways...
...language and structure could create no reasonable expectation to support the plaintiff’s interpretation.” It agreed with the docket committee’s decision that Berkowitz’s claim regarding the lack of experts in his field of study on the ad hoc committee—which examined his case for tenure—was without merit...
Summers and Hyman said after the press conference that they had been as consultative as circumstances allowed, and that a variety of ad hoc groups had discussed the Broad plan...