Word: hoc
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Some professors say his style during ad hoc committee meetings—which advise him on whether to grant tenure to any candidate—is more engaged and more assertive...
Summers and Provost Steven E. 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...
Similarly, the report of an ad-hoc committee on defining the post-merger Radcliffe stressed the importance of “furthering opportunities for women at Harvard and in the academy generally...
...Knowles formed an ad hoc committee of senior faculty members—headed up by Georgi—in the natural sciences to encourage departments to identify outstanding women scientists, both junior and senior, who might be recruited to Harvard...
...group of five Harvard administrators, created to investigate the suicide of Cyril B. Wilcox, Class of 1922, was called “The Court.” The ad hoc tribunal spent the next two weeks investigating students from the College and some graduate schools—essentially prosecuting them for homosexuality...