Word: hoc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After a department recommends a colleague for tenure, the dean of the Faculty and four academic deans review the case and decide whether to convene an ad hoc committee for further review...
...hoc, consisting of several experts outside the field as well as Harvard colleagues, reviews the case for up to several months...
...which is run under the auspices of the United Nations, was designed as a permanent replacement for the temporary ad hoc agencies that have prosecuted war crimes in the past...
Most recently, there was the community uproar surrounding last April’s “sufficient independent corroboration” policy recommended by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Administrative Board (The Ellison Committee). The Committee drew fire from CASV and many other student groups for the secrecy with which it operated, and the hurried way the report was passed by the faculty. The corroboration rule itself was criticized as a 30-year step backwards. This new rule focused attention yet again on the issue of sexual violence at Harvard, and was an important factor in the creation...
University President Lawrence H. Summers approved the promotion of Islamic art historian David J. Roxburgh to the rank of senior professor yesterday only hours after an ad hoc committee recommended the move...