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Under Harvard's present system, tenure decisions are consigned to ad hoc committees of experts from outside the University. This archaic process excludes innovative scholarship, devalues teaching skills and drives young talent to other schools. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History Hue-Tam Ho Tai, who received a lifetime post in 1989, was the first junior professor promoted within Harvard's History Department in 20 years. No wonder junior faculty members desert Harvard in droves...
...protesters are members of an ad hoc citizens' group created during the recent Gulf War. The protesters said they were attempting to draw attention to a number of war-related issues even now that the war itself is over...
Some professors praise Bok's system of reading tenure candidates' work carefully, and then referring their cases to special ad hoc committees. These professors say that Bok's final decisions are relatively free of bias, even though they may be unpopular...
...hoc committees have produced some extremely unpopular decisions, and critics have charged that they merely exist to maintain the status quo, which is slanted against junior faculty...
Each of these committees is based on a common theme: service to students. Nowhere can there be found a provision for a political action committee, or, save for the occasional ad hoc committee or two, any other cause for the council to address political issues. There is quite simply no constitutional justification for the Undergraduate Council to become involved in issues of a political nature...