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Currently, the dean of undergraduate education oversees student academic life, sitting on several policymaking committees and vetting proposals for changes to the curriculum and concentrations. The dean also serves ad hoc roles for the needs of the dean of the Faculty...
Cutler, Fisher Professor of Natural History Andrew Knoll and Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar currently hold these academic deanships. The deans, who each serve three-year terms, organize the ad hoc committees that advise Summers on all tenure cases. Cutler said that there are typically 30 to 35 ad hoc meetings per year...
...compared with Taiwan, which has slapped outright bans on travelers from the mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada.) China's central government has insisted that the country's internal borders will remain open, but mobs of angry villagers bent on protecting their towns have thrown up ad hoc roadside health checks and blockades. Ming Productions, a film company scheduled to shoot four movies in China over the coming year, has had to postpone much of its slate because of SARS-related complications. "It's been very disruptive," moans Ming founder Peter Loehr...
Last year, MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on Access to and Disclosure of Scientific Information issued a report titled “In the Public Interest” outlining how the Institute ought to carry out classified research...
...final meeting, the ad hoc committee, the president and the dean interview several of the candidates’ colleagues. Months or minutes after this meeting, the President makes the final decision on whether to extend an offer...