Word: hoc
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...denied tenure to two 54-year-old professors, contradicting the unanimous recommendations of their departments, stunning their colleagues and leaving no room for appeal. The excessive secrecy in every decision makes it easy for those who are denied tenure to point fingers at a faceless “ad hoc committee,” a groups that wield immense power advising the president on tenure recommendations but has no public accountability...
Friend, who is also professor of Material Science, holds the position of academic dean—which means she participates in the ad hoc committees that advise the president on tenure review cases...
...There are a number of issues Dean Kirby and I are discussing in terms of how cases are brought forward to the ad hoc process,” Summers said in an interview yesterday...
...said the council’s newly-formed Concert Commission was not able to organize the event to his satisfaction. Even the council’s general website is defunct; no one has updated it for some time now and the council’s other ad-hoc website is disorganized and provides little salient information for those it serves, the undergraduates...
Slade recognizes the fraternity’s Christian past. When Sigma Chi was founded in 1855, the cross was immediately adopted as its symbol, with the accompanying motto, In Hoc Signo Vinces—in this sign you will conquer. Both the symbol and the phrase were taken from a legend about Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome, who supposedly saw a cross in the sky before going to battle...