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...creation of...the infrastructure that will ensure greater [equality]. And that’s not necessarily flashy work.” The task force reports recommended that the new senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity be permitted to review appointment files and participate in tenure ad hoc committee meetings, ensuring University attention to women’s issues, This year, Hammonds reviewed the files of nearly 400 appointments and served on over 40 ad hoc committees, according to Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values Jane J. Mansbridge. “That was incredibly time consuming...
...five years after it realized that alumni do not always relate to the university via geography-based Harvard Clubs or by their class year, historically the two major ways the HAA has reached out to alumni.The HAA eventually realized that alumni were associating with one another on an ad hoc basis according to other similarities, Parry says.The growing numbers of shared-interest groups are a manifestation of this change, and the creation of the SIG program makes it possible for the HAA to reach out to these groups.“The HAA considers SIGs to be a critical part...
...field of American music. Harvard now is just a distant, though very unpleasant, memory for me.”COMING BACK TO CAMBRIDGEAt the same time Wright filed her grievance with the EEOC, Skocpol learned that then-dean of the Faculty, Henry Rosovsky, would assemble an ad hoc committee to investigate her charge. The committee—made up of historian Stanley H. Hoffman, historian of science Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, and economist Hendrik S. Houthakker—found, in a 2-1 decision, that sexual discrimination influenced the department’s refusal to tenure Skocpol.In August 1981, when Skocpol...
...hoc committee made presentations to the 10-member faculty advisory committee that had also been advising Bok during the selection process and met with Bok before he made his final decision...
...students have never heard of the Perkins Room, the discussions held there come to define their Harvard experiences.In the room on the second floor of Mass. Hall, which is furnished only with one long table, presidents, deans, and faculty gather to decide the tenure fates of junior professors.These ad hoc committee meetings—the final stage of a lengthy tenure process—sometimes devolve to “people yelling at each other,” one professor said. But one man ultimately holds veto power over all decisions: University President Lawrence H. Summers.Professors say Summers?...