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...decision may also be a prudent one for the University. Goodwin originally was recommended for tenure by the Government Department and an ad hoc committee in 1974. President Bok passed on the appointment and Goodwin had received a letter congratulating...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Doris Kearns Goodwin Gets Non-Tenured Post As Government Professor | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

When Goodwin finishes the three-year period and if she decides that she still wants tenure then, Bok will establish an ad hoc committee of scholars outside the Government Department to rule on the matter...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Doris Kearns Goodwin Gets Non-Tenured Post As Government Professor | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

Nobody could decide whose fault the disaster was. Republican Gov. Arch Moore, facing a tough campaign for re-election in November, disclaimed any fault of Pittston's. (Later, in the face of mounting public pressure, he would appoint an ad hoc committee to investigate the disaster; the committee turned up damaging evidence against the company.) Pittston said nothing, except that the disaster was an "act of God," although a Pittston lawyer told Ben Franklin of The New York Times that "in the long term, the responsibility rests with Pittston." But the people of Buffalo Creek, the survivors, knew where...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Coal | 7/16/1976 | See Source »

Keenan acknowledges that "at a certain point, the University will have to orchestrate the ad hoc positions, maybe get a conductor--we have to face the crucial question of whether this is going to become an international university...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Harvard takes on the world | 6/17/1976 | See Source »

...University has already met with a reasonable amount of success in dealing with the problems of government intervention on a cooperative basis with other institutions. Last year, it was instrumental in forming a 30-member ad hoc consortium to draft a coherent program of finance for higher education. The consortium's report, Brewer says, "was the first major effort on the part of these institutions to confront these problems together...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Harvard takes on the world | 6/17/1976 | See Source »

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