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...Hoc Committees...
...chief source of Dreben's power is his role of assembling scholars to sit on Harvard's ad hoc committees. These are groups composed of both inside and outside professors, which review every departmental tenure nomination and make a recommendation to President...
...next year, 1977, Rosovsky again tapped Dreben, this time for his current position, special assistant to the dean, which is where his role in the ad hoc process comes...
Because "the people you want are the very people who are booked up years in advance," according to Dreben, it takes at least six weeks to convene an ad hoc committee. But Dreben adds that he is constantly amazed that the process runs so smoothly and defends it as a principle guarantor of the quality of Harvard's Faculty...
...whole system rests on the goodwill of very distinguished people at other institutions," he says. "It is hard to believe since we are so cynical, but there is a great deal of integrity in the ad hoc process," he says...