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...Harvard's system currently works, Nord's administrative duties were not even considered in her tenure review. And, despite the support of her department's senior faculty, Nord was denied a lifetime post by an ad hoc committee of outside scholars earlier this spring...
Because senior faculty are asked to evaluate candidates for tenure around the country, to travel and speak at conferences and to sit on other universities' ad hoc committees, the amount of time they spend doing service work is considerably more than what junior faculty spend, Vendler asserts...
Professors also said the English Departmentshould change the way in which an ad hoc committeeof outside scholars evaluates candidates fortenure before delivering a recommendation...
Ruttenburg added that ad hoc committeesunfairly compared junior faculty's research withthat of the leaders in the field who have had moretime to publish. She also said ad hoc committeemembers often are not specialists in the field ofa tenure candidate...
...once again embraced, and council members hoped to put the student government's imprimateur behind the fund--which has been run recently by an annually changing group of seniors. To that end, the council created an ad hoc committee on divestment and named an official liaison...