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...criticisms of Levine it would be unwise for him to admit to them. In fact, Levine never explained why his current research grant is to study the cultural history of the depression and not specifically related to Afro-American Studies. Neither did we think that members of the Ad Hoc Committee were good "third party" sources. According to the EEOC findings against Harvard the Ad Hoc Committee, which reviewed Ephraim Isaac for tenure in 1975, was purposely biased against Isaac by University officials...
...have seen at Harvard numerous other miscarriages of academic justice executed by "unbiased" Ad Hoc Committees (e.g. Molly Nolan and Arnold Harberger). Because we know the history of academic fairness at Harvard, statements from members of the Ad Hoc Committees mean little...
...result of that view--most recently stated in his fifth open letter--Bok has strengthened the appointments process in many of the faculties and, unlike his counterparts elsewhere, chairs every ad hoc committee to review tenure appointments. At the proceedings, for which Bok takes anywhere from six to 20 hours to prepare, the lawyer-turned-president, one Faculty member close to the process says, "takes an active and leading part in questioning the witnesses from the departments." Departments know that they cannot slide a candidate past Bok, who turns down 10 to 15 per cent of all recommendations...
Radcliffe abdicated its responsibility for undergraduate women by eliminating the Forum, Angela Giral, chairman of the ad hoc committee on women at Harvard and Radcliffe, said in her opening remarks...
...Forum funded and staffed the activities of the ad hoc committee, and Giral added that the budget cuts would severely curtail the work of the intra-departmental panel, which sponsored Saturday's meeting...